diabolize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make diabolic or devilish.
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to represent as diabolic.
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to subject to diabolic influences.
verb
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to make (someone or something) diabolical
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to subject to the influence of devils
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to portray as diabolical
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Etymology
Origin of diabolize
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The Greek deified nature, not being able to diabolize it; still he knew that it must be ruled and transmuted by mind.
From Homer's Odyssey A Commentary by Snider, Denton Jaques
Of course the conspiring farmers are idealized and their enemies are diabolized; but all this is so in the saga.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
There were demons only, more exactly there were diabolized expressions invented to denominate natural phenomena and whatever else perturbed.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
November 17.—A story of the effects of revenge in diabolizing him who indulges in it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various
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