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Demonize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To turn into a demon. transitive
  2. 2
    make into a demon wordnet
  3. 3
    To describe or represent as evil or diabolic, usually falsely. figuratively, transitive

    "President Trump has seized on the response in the streets to police brutality against Black men and women to bolster his re-election campaign, employing provocative and sometimes incendiary language and images to incite his followers, demonize his opponents or both."

Etymology

From Medieval Latin daemonizō, from daemon + -izō. Compare Ancient Greek δαιμονίζομαι (daimonízomai, “to be possessed by a demon”), from δαίμων (daímōn, “demon”). By surface analysis, demon + -ize.

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