Usually means: To portray as wicked or evil.
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  1. diabolize: Merriam-Webster
  2. diabolize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. diabolize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. diabolize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. diabolize: Vocabulary.com
  6. diabolize: Wordnik
  7. diabolize: Wiktionary
  8. diabolize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. diabolize: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Diabolize, diabolize: Dictionary.com
  11. Diabolize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. diabolize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. diabolize: Rhymezone
  14. Diabolize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. diabolize: FreeDictionary.org
  16. diabolize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. diabolize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (diabolize)

▸ verb:  (archaic) to represent as diabolical

Similar:
devilize, diabolise, diabolify, demonize, demonify, dæmonize, dedemonize, demonise, evilize, monsterize, more...

Opposite:
sanctify, bless, praise, exalt

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Similar:
devilize, diabolise, diabolify, demonize, demonify, dæmonize, dedemonize, demonise, evilize, monsterize, more...

Opposite:
sanctify, bless, praise, exalt



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