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bemonster

verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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2

verb

Meaning 2

To fill or cover with monsters.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 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,

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3

verb

Meaning 3

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

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • 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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History

Etymology

From be- + monster.