demonize

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If they didn't demonize, they wouldn't be Democrats.

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  1. transitive verb To turn into or as if into a demon.
  2. transitive verb To possess by or as if by a demon.
  3. transitive verb To represent as evil or diabolic: wartime propaganda that demonizes the enemy.

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  • Additionally, they're easy to demonize which makes for easy political pickings. —  QandO
  • Palestinians the campaign to re-demonize Arafat and his people proved —  Darwiniana
  • The defense argued that prosecutors set out to "demonize" the long-popular Fumo, served 30 years in the state Senate.
  • But Obama also knows that Lincoln had a complicated view of world affairs: Lincoln knew that we must reach for common understandings and resist the temptation to demonize, since we're all imperfect and can't know with certainty that God is on our side. —  OUPblog
  • But a key role was to focus on, demonize, isolate and condemn Serbs, who were the NATO target. —  Latest Articles
 

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  1. from Middle Latin dæmonizare, make demoniac, from Greek δαιμονιζεσθαι, be under the power of a tutelary deity or spirit, in N. T. be possessed by a demon.
 

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/ˈdimənaɪz/
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