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Verb: victimize  'vik-ti,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, informal], nobble [Brit, informal], diddle [informal], bunco [N. Amer, informal], defraud, scam [informal], mulct, hornswoggle [N. Amer, informal], short-change, con [informal], victimise [Brit], grift [N. Amer, informal], ream [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: victimized, victimizes, victimizing

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

Encyclopedia: Victimize