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victimize

 
Verb victimize has 3 senses
  1. victimize, victimise - make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"
    --1 is one way to wrong
    Derived forms: noun victimization1, noun victimizer1, noun victim2, noun victim1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. victimize, victimise - punish unjustly
    --2 is one way to punish, penalize, penalise
    Derived forms: noun victim2, noun victim1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
  3. 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
    Derived form: noun victimization2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
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