Bemonster

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform. transitive

    "Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame! Bemonster not thy feature!"

  2. 2
    To fill or cover with monsters. transitive

    "1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119, So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack, Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky,"

  3. 3
    To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster. transitive

    "1921, R. H. Case, Review of The Percy Reprints: The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe, The Modern Language Review, Volume 16, No. 1, January 1921, p. 77, It […] ends with a crude but forceful intensification of the lust and blood of the Italian novella, complicated with the popular theme of scandalising the Pope and bemonstering the Jew."

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"Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame! Bemonster not thy feature!"

Etymology

From be- + monster.

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