单词 | victimize |
释义 | victimize (once / 8019 pages) v To victimize is to make someone into a victim by harming or taking advantage of them in some way. A school bully might be known to victimize other kids on the playground. A victim is someone who has had something bad done to them, like the victim of a murder or a burglary. To victimize is to put someone in that position. A serial killer victimizes the people they kill. A swindler victimizes the people they cheat out of money. Abusive parents victimize their children. A football team that cheats victimizes the other team. When you hear about victimizing, you know someone has been hurt. WORD FAMILYvictimize: victimization, victimized, victimizer, victimizes, victimizing+/victim: victimise, victimize, victims/victimisation: victimisations/victimise: victimisation, victimised, victimiser, victimises, victimising/victimization: victimizations/victimizer: victimizers USAGE EXAMPLESEven when they are assigned to detention centers that correspond to their gender identity, they are often victimized. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Drug pushers victimize people who are addicted to substances such as heroin. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Of course, the notion that white people are “victimized” or “vulnerable” in the United States is absurd. Salon(Dec 20, 2016) 1v make a victim of I was victimized by this con-man Syn|Hypo|Hyper victimise cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit cozen, deceive, delude, lead onbe false to; be dishonest with gazumpraise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price cozencheat or trick fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surchargerip off; ask an unreasonable price betray, selldeliver to an enemy by treachery bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindledeprive of by deceit bilkcheat somebody out of what is due, especially money beat, bunkavoid paying whipsawvictimize, especially in gambling or negotiations welch, welshcheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt cheat, chiselengage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud shillact as a shill flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trickdeceive somebody befool, fool, gullmake a fool or dupe of betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wanderbe sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's legsubject to a playful hoax or joke ensnare, entrap, frame, set uptake or catch as if in a snare or trap beguile, hoodwink, juggleinfluence by slyness humbugtrick or deceive wrong treat unjustly; do wrong to 2v punish unjustly Syn|Hyper victimise penalise, penalize, punish impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on 3v deprive of by deceit Syn|Hypo|Hyper bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle short, short-change cheat someone by not returning him enough money cheat, chisel, rip off deprive somebody of something by deceit |
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