bemonster

== English == === Etymology === From be- +‎ monster. === Verb === bemonster (third-person singular simple present bemonsters, present participle bemonstering, simple past and past participle bemonstered) (transitive) To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform. (transitive) To fill or cover with monsters. 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119,[2] So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack, Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky, (transitive) To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster. 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,[4] 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. === Anagrams === Embertons, entombers