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Verb victimize has 3 senses
- victimize, victimise - make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"
--1 is one way to wrong
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
- victimize, victimise - punish unjustly
--2 is one way to punish, penalize, penalise
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con - 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"
--3 is one way to cheat, rip off, chisel
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
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