Link Centre Dictionary

victimize

vic·ti·mize

UK/ˈvɪktɪmaɪz/ US/ˈvɪktʌmaɪz/ fairly common

verb

1.

make a victim of

  • “I was victimized by this con-man”
Synonyms
3.

deprive of by deceit

  • “He swindled me out of my inheritance”
  • “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”
  • “the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change”

Origin

From victim + -ize.

Related words

Broader terms

Narrower terms

WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved. Wiktionary content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence.