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单词 victimize
释义 victimize, v.|ˈvɪktɪmaɪz|
[f. victim n.]
1. trans. To make a victim of; to cause to suffer inconvenience, discomfort, annoyance, etc., either deliberately or by misdirected attentions.
1830Lytton Let. Sept., in M. Napier's Corr. (1879) 87 Your contributors are at full liberty to ridicule, abuse, and (allow the author of Paul Clifford to employ a slang word) victimize me.1839P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 166, I had the honour of being kindly victimised on the occasion by our hospitable host, as the leader of the shooting world.1848Thackeray Van. Fair xli, Becky..described the occurrence, and how she had been victimised by Lady Southdown.
b. To cheat, swindle, or defraud.
1839[see victimizing ppl. adj.].1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxix, In a turf transaction, either Spavin or Cockspur would try to get the better of his father, and, to gain a point in the odds, victimise his best friends.1859J. Lang Wand. India 20 After several officers have been victimized at play, their friends are apt to talk about the matter in an unpleasant manner.1883Greenwood Odd People 96 In what way has the rascal victimised his customer?
2. To put to death as, or in the manner of, a sacrificial victim; to slaughter.
1853Tait's Mag. XX. 487 Fifty thousand Gentoos were victimized by the scimitar.1855Singleton Virgil II. 541 By this wound 'Tis Pallas, Pallas, victimiseth thee, And taketh vengeance on thy cursed blood.189919th Cent. Nov. 816 note, The sacrifice used to be human, and virgins were victimised on the hill at Kandy.
transf.1880McCarthy Own Times liii. IV. 148 The prisoners..must have shared the fate of those who were victimised outside [by an explosion].
b. To destroy or spoil (plants) completely.
1849Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. X. i. 96 The wireworm had been at work to so fearful an extent, that in ten days the whole crop seemed victimised.1882Hardy in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club IX. 463 Some shrubs had been victimised by the winter.
Hence ˈvictimized ppl. a.; ˈvictimizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1849A. Soyer Mod. Housew. 242 *Victimised Cutlets.1850Thackeray Pendennis lxiii, [He] had pledged his word..to be content with the allowance which his victimized wife still awarded him.1855Smedley H. Coverdale iv, A..system of reprisals which those victimised individuals appeared..inclined to resent.1859Habits of Gd. Society xv. 372 The..broken sentences of the victimized bridegroom.
1834Tait's Mag. I. 392/2 The Jews were to have his money any way. If not for their conversion, then for his own *victimizing.1850Thackeray Pendennis lv, There was no such thing: there was no victimizing.
1839Morning Herald 2 Sept., The defrauded victims of..a *victimising artist.
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