victimize
victimized; victimizing; victimizes
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.
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make a victim of“I was victimized by this con-man”
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synonyms:
victimise
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cheat, chisel, rip off
deprive somebody of something by deceit
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cozen, deceive, delude, lead on
be false to; be dishonest with
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gazump
raise the price of something after agreeing on a lower price
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cozen
cheat or trick
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fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge
rip off; ask an unreasonable price
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betray, sell
deliver to an enemy by treachery
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bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle
(offensive) deprive of by deceit
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bilk
cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money
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beat, bunk
avoid paying
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whipsaw
victimize, especially in gambling or negotiations
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welch, welsh
cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
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cheat, chisel
engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
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shill
act as a shill
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flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick
deceive somebody
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befool, fool, gull
make a fool or dupe of
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betray, cheat, cheat on, cuckold, wander
be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage
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hoax, play a joke on, pull someone's leg
subject to a playful hoax or joke
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ensnare, entrap, frame, set up
take or catch as if in a snare or trap
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beguile, hoodwink, juggle
influence by slyness
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humbug
trick or deceive
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wrong
treat unjustly; do wrong to
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punish unjustly
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(offensive) deprive of by deceit
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