VICTIMIZE
Dictionary entry overview: What does victimize mean?
• VICTIMIZE (verb)
The verb VICTIMIZE has 3 senses:
1. make a victim of
2. punish unjustly
3. deprive of by deceit
Familiarity information: VICTIMIZE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• VICTIMIZE (verb)
Meaning:
Make a victim of
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
victimise; victimize
Context example:
I was victimized by this con-man
Hypernyms (to "victimize" is one way to...):
wrong (treat unjustly; do wrong to)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "victimize"):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
cozen; deceive; delude; lead on (be false to; be dishonest with)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Meaning:
Punish unjustly
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
victimise; victimize
Hypernyms (to "victimize" is one way to...):
penalise; penalize; punish (impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
swindle; scam; rook; nobble; mulct; hornswoggle; gyp; goldbrick; gip; diddle; defraud; con; bunco; short-change; victimize
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms (to "victimize" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "victimize"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
