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Verb: victimize  'vik-tu`mIz
  1. Make a victim of
    "I was victimized by this con-man"
    - victimise [Brit]
     
  2. Punish unjustly
    - victimise [Brit]
     
  3. Deprive of by deceit
    "He victimized me out of my inheritance"
    - swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer], nobble [Brit], diddle, bunco [N. Amer], defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], ream [N. Amer], grift [N. Amer]

Derived forms: victimizing, victimizes, victimized

See also: victim, victimization, victimizer

Type of: cheat, chisel, penalise [Brit], penalize, punish, rip off, sanction, wrong