Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cause to be devilish or diabolical.
- transitive verb To represent as diabolical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render diabolical or devilish; impart diabolical ideas to.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To render diabolical.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to represent as
diabolical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb turn into a devil or make devilish
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Examples
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Wait until the democrat propose something and propose the opposite or say no and diabolize the plan and scare people with phonies and lies.
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I think this was an operation to diabolize demonize the government of Cote d'Ivoire, Kalo added.
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I think this was an operation to diabolize demonize the government of Cote d'Ivoire, Kalo added.
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I think this was an operation to diabolize demonize the government of Cote d'Ivoire, Kalo added.
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Greek deified nature, not being able to diabolize it; still he knew that it must be ruled and transmuted by mind.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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