Zombify vs Monsterise - What's the difference?
zombify | monsterise | Hyponyms |
(fictional) To turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead).
* 1994 , Arnold et al., A History of Literature in the Caribbean: Hispanic and Francophone Regions :
(computing) To take control of (a computer) in order to use it covertly and illicitly.
To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
* 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
* 1997 , Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film , page 330
* 2005 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
Monsterise is a hyponym of zombify.
As verbs the difference between zombify and monsterise
is that zombify is to turn into a zombie (a member of the living dead or undead) while monsterise is to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.zombify
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Verb
- She managed to flee the sorcerer who had attempted to zombify her and enjoyed relative prosperity in Jamaica.
- These trojans can zombify your machine.
Derived terms
* de-zombify * zombificationHypernyms
* monsterizemonsterise
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Alternative forms
* monsterizeVerb
(monsteris)- and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of " a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
- (quite literally monsterise ) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
- A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.
