monsterise

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A form of monsterize — To make something or someone into a monster.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbmonsterise (third-person singular simple present monsterises, present participle monsterising, simple past and past participle monsterised)

present singular third person monsterises · participle present monsterising · participle past monsterised · past monsterised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of monsterize.

    […] (quite literally monsterise) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.

    1997, Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film, page 330
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    […] 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.

    1851 January 1, The British Friend, volume 9, page 22

    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.

    2005, Outlook, volume 45, numbers 9-16

Origin

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APA

monsterise. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsterise

MLA

“monsterise.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsterise. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “monsterise,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/monsterise.

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