monstrify
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editmonstrify (third-person singular simple present monstrifies, present participle monstrifying, simple past and past participle monstrified)
- (transitive) To turn into a monster; to portray as monstrous.
- Hypernym: other
- 2020, Axel Gasquet, Gorica Majstorovic, Cultural and Literary Dialogues Between Asia and Latin America, page 129:
- And like the police report, newspaper articles also monstrify the Japanese by demonizing kamikaze soldiers: […]