Synonyms for victimize
ˈvɪk təˌmaɪzvic·tim·ize

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1. victimize

   Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.

   Synonyms:
   abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrong

   Antonyms:
   applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate

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1. victimize, victimiseverb

   make a victim of

   "I was victimized by this con-man"

   Synonyms:
   nobble, gip, hornswoggle, scam, victimise, short-change, gyp, bunco, con, goldbrick, rook, mulct, defraud, diddle, swindle

2. victimize, victimiseverb

   punish unjustly

   Synonyms:
   nobble, gip, hornswoggle, scam, victimise, short-change, gyp, bunco, con, goldbrick, rook, mulct, defraud, diddle, swindle

3. victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, converb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   rook, cabbage, fiddle, hook, nobble, gip, shirk, goldbrick, swindle, con, memorise, snatch, diddle, lift, gyp, kidnap, abstract, toy, abduct, pilfer, filch, purloin, snarf, short-change, defraud, hornswoggle, play, victimise, sneak, bunco, pinch, swipe, short, memorize, learn, scam, mulct, shrink from

Matched Categories

1. • Punish
   • Wrong

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1. witness

   to have no part in something and be completely innocent

   Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019  

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1. victimizeverb

   Synonyms:
   [colloquial.] cheat, dupe, trick, defraud, deceive, swindle, cozen, chouse, gull, overreach, befool, beguile, circumvent, diddle, hoodwink, bamboozle, impose upon, put upon, practise upon, play upon, take in

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How to use victimize in a sentence?

1. James Baldwin:

   It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

2. Rachael Denhollander:

   There has still been a complete refusal to recognize that Dean Strampel’s response to, and attitude towards, sexual assault victims, myself included, was abhorrent, his words and actions created a culture where victims were disbelieved, silenced and mocked, and one of the most prolific pedophiles in U.S. history was able to victimize little girls with impunity.

3. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown:

   The defendant is accused of an egregious abuse of his position as a government screener at LaGuardia Airport to sexually victimize a young woman, such alleged conduct cannot, under any circumstances, go unpunished.

4. Mark Molinari:

   Criminal mischief, swastikas, property damage are no different to us than robberies and assaults. They're all victimizing an entire community -- sometimes a world-wide community -- so not being able to get closure for that community is difficult for all of us here, our cases don't just victimize the victim. They victimize a group.

5. Bill Beham:

   If you act like a victim the only people who will have an interest in you are they who victimize.