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Victimize

verb

(past & past part. victimized; pres. part. victimizing)

Make a victim of. Synonym: victimise.

Punish unjustly. Synonym: victimise.

Deprive of by deceit. Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle. "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

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"Victimize" Quotes from Famous Books

... stimulated his self-confidence and made him prize those gifts by which he had once aroused the devotion of adoring worshipers in the Quaker meeting house; he soon found that they could be used to victimize the crowds which gathered around the flare of the ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss

... a certain class of emigrants on their guard against the machinations of a few agents in London, who victimize them not a little. ...

— The Truth About America • Edward Money

... given him a freedom among men and women, that was fast descending into abandon. Success had stimulated his self-confidence and made him prize those gifts by which he had once aroused the devotion of adoring worshipers in the Quaker meeting house; he soon found that they could be used to victimize the crowds which gathered around the flare of the torch ...

— The Redemption of David Corson • Charles Frederic Goss