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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make into a demon; "Power had demonized him" [syn: demonize, demonise]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb see demon

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 make into or like a demon. 2 represent as a demon.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Demonize De"mon*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Demonizing.] [Cf. LL. daemonizare to be possessed by a demon, Gr. ?.] 1. To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into. 2. To control or possess by a demon.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(demonizes, demonizing, demonized) Note: in BRIT, also use 'demonise' If people demonize someone, they convince themselves that that person is evil. Each side began to demonize the other. VERB: V n