evilize

to turn someone or something evil

Verb

  1. to turn someone or something evil
    • As it happens, an evil dude named Chaos has plans to take over the Skylands. To that end, Chaos engineers a series of machines called the ‘evilizers’ (yes, evilizers, not making this up), which have the propensity to...
    • Desperate to help his friend, but feeling powerless. How frustrating! It won't be long before frustration turns to anger! Fly away, my little akuma, and evilize him. - 2015, Hawk Moth, “The Bubbler”, in Miraculous:...
  2. vilify
    • The FBI is making an effort to “evilize” Islam, Siblani explained, by implying that Muslim-Americans are killers. - 2015, FBI Uses National Security as Excuse to Suppress Muslim-Americans, Sputnik International:

Origin

From evil + -ize.

Forms

evilizes evilizing evilized

Derived

de-evilize