Meaning of "demonise" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF DEMONISE

demonise  [ˈdiːmənaɪz]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEMONISE

Demonise is a verb.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb demonise in English.

WHAT DOES DEMONISE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Demonization

Demonization or Demonisation is the reinterpretation of polytheistic deities as evil, lying demons by other religions, generally monotheistic and henotheistic ones. The term has since been expanded to refer to any characterization of individuals, groups, or political bodies as evil.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEMONISE

PRESENT

Present

I demonise

you demonise

he/she/it demonises

we demonise

you demonise

they demonise

Present continuous

I am demonising

you are demonising

he/she/it is demonising

we are demonising

you are demonising

they are demonising

Present perfect

I have demonised

you have demonised

he/she/it has demonised

we have demonised

you have demonised

they have demonised

Present perfect continuous

I have been demonising

you have been demonising

he/she/it has been demonising

we have been demonising

you have been demonising

they have been demonising

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I demonised

you demonised

he/she/it demonised

we demonised

you demonised

they demonised

Past continuous

I was demonising

you were demonising

he/she/it was demonising

we were demonising

you were demonising

they were demonising

Past perfect

I had demonised

you had demonised

he/she/it had demonised

we had demonised

you had demonised

they had demonised

Past perfect continuous

I had been demonising

you had been demonising

he/she/it had been demonising

we had been demonising

you had been demonising

they had been demonising

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will demonise

you will demonise

he/she/it will demonise

we will demonise

you will demonise

they will demonise

Future continuous

I will be demonising

you will be demonising

he/she/it will be demonising

we will be demonising

you will be demonising

they will be demonising

Future perfect

I will have demonised

you will have demonised

he/she/it will have demonised

we will have demonised

you will have demonised

they will have demonised

Future perfect continuous

I will have been demonising

you will have been demonising

he/she/it will have been demonising

we will have been demonising

you will have been demonising

they will have been demonising

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would demonise

you would demonise

he/she/it would demonise

we would demonise

you would demonise

they would demonise

Conditional continuous

I would be demonising

you would be demonising

he/she/it would be demonising

we would be demonising

you would be demonising

they would be demonising

Conditional perfect

I would have demonise

you would have demonise

he/she/it would have demonise

we would have demonise

you would have demonise

they would have demonise

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been demonising

you would have been demonising

he/she/it would have been demonising

we would have been demonising

you would have been demonising

they would have been demonising

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you demonise
we let´s demonise
you demonise

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to demonise

Past participle

demonised

Present Participle

demonising

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

TRANSLATION OF DEMONISE

Find out the translation of demonise to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of demonise from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «demonise» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 妖魔化
• Translator English - Spanish: demonizar
• English: demonise
• Translator English - Hindi: demonize
• Translator English - Arabic: شيطنة
• Translator English - Russian: демонизировать
• Translator English - Portuguese: demonizar
• Translator English - Bengali: demonize
• Translator English - French: diaboliser
• Translator English - Malay: Jahat
• Translator English - German: dämonisieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 悪魔化する
• Translator English - Korean: 악마
• Translator English - Javanese: Demonize
• Translator English - Vietnamese: phỉ báng
• Translator English - Tamil: demonize
• Translator English - Marathi: भ्रांत करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: şeytanlaştırmak
• Translator English - Italian: demonizzare
• Translator English - Polish: demonizować
• Translator English - Ukrainian: демонізувати
• Translator English - Romanian: demonizare
• Translator English - Greek: δαιμονοποιούν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: demoniseer
• Translator English - Swedish: demonize
• Translator English - Norwegian: demonisere

3 QUOTES WITH «DEMONISE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word demonise.

1

Tony Abbott

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

2

Tony Judt

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.

3

Kenneth Kaunda

I've been saying it all along: please do not demonise Robert Mugabe. I'm not saying the methods he's using are correct, but he was put under great pressure.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEMONISE»

Discover the use of demonise in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to demonise and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

It´s the people:

... Ihave worked withinthe past, and have done so with pleasure, except...! So it does matter... let's now consider the exit scenario. To. demonise. or. not. to. demonise? In some companies anyone who leaves is immediately thought ofasa  ...

Khurshed Dehnugara, Claire Genkai Breeze, 2010

Valhalla's Warriors: A History of the Waffen-SS on the ...

Do not bother to demonise people as being inherently evil. That's not how it works. Instead, we should view evil as opportunistic, passing like an electrical current through the world and through people: or wandering like an infection that takes ...

Terry Goldsworthy, 2007

Poems of Re-Living:

Method. to. demonise. evil. spirits. and. preventable. mental. illnesses. Prayer and fasting (Spirits from the dead, vampires, ghosts, the tall human structure dressed in white, witch craft of being indisposed to marriage to a spirit, creepy crawly ...

Mary Taurayi Sadomba, 2014

Islam Without Allah?: The Rise of Religious Externalism in ...

... equally short-sighted is the attitude of those who would, on the basis of Minorsky's misidentification of Majlisi. as. mulla-bfishi,. demonise. him.14. The Majlisi family Muhammad Baqir was not the only member. 150 ISLAM WITHOUT ALLAH?

Colin Turner, 2013

HSC Ancient History

Livy. goes. to. lengths. to. demonise. Hannibal,. from the Battle of Saguntum, to the end, playing on the sympathies of his Roman readers. Polybius describes Hannibal as a true leader working and fighting with his men, sharing the dangers  ...

Peter Roberts, 2006

Changing Ourselves: God's Plan in Christ for Changing the World

New. Leadership. Needed. This is where we have to work across faiths with other leaders. It is wrong to demonise other faiths. These faiths are held in sincerity by many people. There are many ”God fearers” among them ...

Kent Hodge, 2013

Reflections of Light

'So what you are saying is if I make him angry he's going to eat me, and then he'll demonise this planet?' 'Demonise, is an understatement. First he'll kill off all who are living and then he'll add them to his army.' 'And how many worlds has he ...

Justin Skarott

Science Fiction

But itisnot necessarily clearthatSF is as positive a mode as this optimistic assessment suggests.Evenif we setaside the more obviously retrograde examples of SF that introduce difference only to demonise it,defining science fiction some critics ...

Adam Roberts, 2006

Anti-Americanism: Historical perspectives

In this form of anti-Zionism, all the historical ingredients used to demonise Jews are simply transferred to the state of Israel which - in the standard diction of anti- Semitism - behaves Jew-like by grasping for global power (the theme of ...

Brendon O'Connor, Martin Griffiths, 2007

Key Issues in Childhood and Youth Studies

Derek Kassem, Lisa Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor. Mitchell, G. (2004) Psychology in education, in D. Matheson (ed.) An Introduction to the Study of Education, 2nd edn, London: David Fulton Publishers Ltd. Moore, S. (2009) We demonise all boys ...

Derek Kassem, Lisa Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEMONISE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term demonise is used in the context of the following news items.

'Real' vampires reluctant to 'come out of the coffin' to social workers …

... aware of our own potential biases and stereotypes, and interrogate and challenge common social discourses that pathologise and demonise ... «The Register, Jul 15»

Scapegoating minorities may reap a bitter harvest

Perhaps the government should admit it is peddling what many Muslims see as xenophobic views which demonise Australian Muslims ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»

How to identify groupthink in your company: A lack of disruptive …

Moreover, these feelings allow the group to demonise any antagonistic colleagues, reducing them to negative and debasing stereotypes in ... «City A.M., Jul 15»

This Could Have Been a Good Budget, Were It Not for Two …

How very typical of the Tories to erect another barrier to further education for children from poorer backgrounds and to demonise single mothers ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»

Alternative view of Pakistan's nuclear trajectory

Previously institutions of standing that support Indian and Israeli nuclear ventures but demonise Pakistan, included Hudson Institute, Stimson ... «The News International, Jul 15»

Budget 2015: Why do we call social security payments 'benefits …

Discussions around welfare simultaneously demonise those who rely on social security and fetishize the 'hard working family', not realising that ... «The Independent, Jul 15»

That Sugar Film: demonising the sweet stuff

But to demonise one specific kind of food, and turn it into a conspiracy theory about big business wrecking our health, is positively medieval. «Spiked, Jul 15»

Misplaced conceptions

... an effort to modernize their educational standards is made as part of the right to education programme or they just want to demonise them. «Kashmir Times, Jul 15»

How did we get to this welfare state?

... the poor into "deserving" and "undeserving" types - and set out to demonise and punish those thought to have brought it all on themselves. «BBC News, Jul 15»

Sara Pascoe: 'There are certain things I've done that are just horrible'

An idea for a show was born, “to do with empathy, and how we create narratives about other people's actions that either excuse or demonise ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»