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Victimize   /vˈɪktəmaɪz/   Listen
Victimize

verb
(past & past part. victimized; pres. part. victimizing)
1.
Make a victim of.  Synonym: victimise.
2.
Punish unjustly.  Synonym: victimise.
3.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"



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Words linked to "Victimize" :   con, delude, deceive, mulct, victim, lead on, cozen, penalize, wrong, cheat, diddle, rip off, short, chisel, victimization, punish, penalise



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