Bemonster
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Bemonster is a verb meaning (transitive) To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
Meaning
(transitive) To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To fill or cover with monsters.
- (transitive) To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster.
Example Sentences
Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame! Bemonster not thy feature!
A man by men bemonstered, but by love Watched with blind eyes as of a wakeful dove [alluding to the novel The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo]
Little by little the naked body was assuming shape under our hands. There were no longer those disfiguring gouts of clay which had produced dread in me by bemonstering the features.
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,
Word Forms
- bemonsters
- bemonstering
- bemonstered
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include monstrify, monster, monsterize, monsterise, demonize, bestialize.
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