monsterize

Verb

monsterize (third-person singular simple present monsterizes, present participle monsterizing, simple past and past participle monsterized)

1. To make something or someone into a monster.
   • "IRON-ON" MONSTERS Itie newest way to "Monsterize" your shirts. T-shirts, sweat shirts, jeans, jackets, notebooks-any tiling2010, Forrest J Ackerman, Vampirella Archives, volume 1, page 331

   Synonyms:

   monster

2. To give someone a very bad reputation; demonize, vilify.
   • Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose2003, Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity, page 25
   • The particular conjunction of politics and 'monsters' in Richard III 'monsterizes' an already 'monstrous' language and institution, a reflection of the level of anxiety generated by the succession crisis in the 1590s.2002, Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture, page 93

   Synonyms:

   denigrate, infamize, villainize, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch