Crossword clues for victimize
victimize
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victimize \Vic"tim*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victimized; p. pr. & vb. n. Victimizing.] To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from victim + -ize. Related: Victimized; victimizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make someone a victim or sacrifice. 2 To punish someone unjustly. 3 To swindle or defraud someone.
WordNet
v. make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man" [syn: victimise]
punish unjustly [syn: victimise]
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" [syn: swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]
Usage examples of "victimize".
Perhaps cuckoos have only in recent centuries started parasitizing their present hosts, and will in a few centuries be forced to give them up and victimize other species.
Who was victimized during the Diamondback disturbances and may well have a chip on her shoulder, as many do.
Nicaragua had victimized the Marines by grabbing any available dogs and tying them around their camp for security.
Instead, he did all the things that Robbie despised-office management, the brief-writing, the interrogatories, routine deps, and, especially, the endless comforting demanded by their clients, who usually felt intensely victimized.
I believe that an organization now exists for political espionage in factories, pubs, etc. and of course in the army, but I doubt whether it can do more than report on the state of public opinion and occasionally victimize some individual held to be dangerous.
As Grange agents or as stockholders in cooperative stores or Grange factories, many farmers gained valuable business experience which helped to prevent them from being victimized thereafter.
Victimized in turn by famine, flood, locusts, and bandits, he knows that only the land endures.
But as a group they scorn foresight and rely on a colorful, willful ignorance that brings them now and then to pick on a gas station whose owner works twelve hours a day on the premises, has his life savings tied up in the franchise, and whose body bloats with adrenaline at the prospect of being victimized by a gang of punks.
It had been he who had first taken Eta, when, the night before I was branded, I had watched her perform, bound, belied and hooded, in the same cruel sport in which I this evening had been so humiliatingly victimized, treated as though I might be only a slave.
To take responsibility for the welfare of others made me feel less victimized by the whims of whatever impossible fate had brought me here, and I was grateful to Colum for suggesting it.
In action, Billy could bump into an unsuspecting woman, separate her from her purse, and be ten yards away and moving fast by the time she realized that she'd been victimized.
Eventually, if unctuously, he came to the point: there had been an unhappy misunderstanding here in Galesville, innocent people had been victimized but justice had now been done and Sister John, Miss Witkowski and Mr.
Victimized by a grievous low blow, the white king staggers, gasps his surrender, and topples off the board,' he said, play-acting his own narration as he went.
The victimized oarsman shot from the stern seat to defend his maligned competence.
Could it be, in this inverted age, that he was being victimized by -- the fates, he agreed with himself to call the persecuting agency -- precisely _because of_ his pursuit of "the good"?