victimize

Verb

Meaning

To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rook swindle diddle con defraud bunco scam hornswoggle mulct goldbrick nobble short-change gull gip fleece
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Antonyms

help aid protect benefit favor assist
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Hypernyms

chisel wrong punish cheat penalize rip off

Hyponyms

short chisel cozen cheat deceive rip off

Phrases with the word

to victimize

Derivatives

victimized victimizing

Examples

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once-there has to be a limit. Edward Said

With such confusions, don't it make you wanna scream? Your bash abusing victimize within the scheme, You try to cope with every lie they scrutinize, Oh, brother, please have mercy, 'Cause I just can't take it! Michael Jackson

In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. Isaac Bashevis Singer

In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis. Robert Casey

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless. James Baldwin

He swindled me out of my inheritance Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

victimist victimizable victimization victimized victimized by victimizer