English verb: victimize | |||
1. | victimize (social) make a victim of | ||
Samples | I was victimized by this con-man. | ||
Synonyms | victimise | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | wrong | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | cheat, chisel, cozen, deceive, delude, lead on, rip off | ||
2. | victimize (social) punish unjustly | ||
Synonyms | victimise | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Something ----s somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | penalise, penalize, punish | ||
3. | victimize (social) deprive of by deceit | ||
Samples | 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 | bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody. Somebody ----s somebody PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | cheat, chisel, rip off | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | short, short-change | ||