What is another word for victimize?
Synonyms for victimize
ˈvɪk təˌmaɪzvic·tim·ize
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
victimize
Abuse covers all unreasonable or improper use or treatment by word or act. A tenant does not abuse rented property by "reasonable wear," though that may damage the property and injure its sale; he may abuse it by needless defacement or neglect. It is possible to abuse a man without harming him, as when the criminal vituperates the judge; or to harm a man without abusing him, as when the witness tells the truth about the criminal. Defame, malign, rail at, revile, slander, vilify, and vituperate are used always in a bad sense. One may be justly reproached. To impose on or to victimize one is to injure him by abusing his confidence. To persecute one is to ill-treat him for opinion's sake, commonly for religious belief; to oppress is generally for political or pecuniary motives. "Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy," Deut. xxiv, 14. Misemploy, misuse, and pervert are commonly applied to objects rather than to persons. A dissolute youth misemploys his time, misuses his money and opportunities, harms his associates, perverts his talents, wrongs his parents, ruins himself, abuses every good gift of God.
Synonyms:
abuse, aggrieve, damage, defame, defile, disparage, harm, ill-treat, ill-use, impose on, impose upon, injure, malign, maltreat, misemploy, misuse, molest, oppress, persecute, pervert, prostitute, rail at, ravish, reproach, revile, ruin, slander, vilify, violate, vituperate, wrongAntonyms:
applaud, benefit, care for, cherish, conserve, consider, eulogize, extol, favor, laud, panegyrize, praise, protect, regard, respect, shield, sustain, tend, uphold, vindicate
Princeton's WordNet
victimize, victimiseverb
make a victim of
"I was victimized by this con-man"
Synonyms:
nobble, gip, hornswoggle, scam, victimise, short-change, gyp, bunco, con, goldbrick, rook, mulct, defraud, diddle, swindlevictimize, victimiseverb
punish unjustly
Synonyms:
nobble, gip, hornswoggle, scam, victimise, short-change, gyp, bunco, con, goldbrick, rook, mulct, defraud, diddle, swindlevictimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, converb
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"
Synonyms:
rook, cabbage, fiddle, hook, nobble, gip, shirk, goldbrick, swindle, con, memorise, snatch, diddle, lift, gyp, kidnap, abstract, toy, abduct, pilfer, filch, purloin, snarf, short-change, defraud, hornswoggle, play, victimise, sneak, bunco, pinch, swipe, short, memorize, learn, scam, mulct, shrink from
Editors Contribution
witness
to have no part in something and be completely innocent
Submitted by rinat on August 15, 2019
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#424 | learn | |
#516 | play | |
#746 | short | |
#1475 | abstract | |
#1673 | wrong | |
#2225 | abuse | |
#2266 | damage | |
#2529 | con | |
#2897 | toy | |
#4499 | lift | |
#5613 | hook | |
#6159 | harm | |
#11065 | scam | |
#12746 | violate | |
#14038 | misuse | |
#14164 | ruin | |
#16203 | sneak | |
#16326 | snatch | |
#16414 | cabbage | |
#17127 | pinch | |
#18731 | fiddle | |
#28024 | prostitute | |
#33274 | slander | |
#33601 | memorize | |
#34306 | injure | |
#34734 | pervert | |
#35780 | rook | |
#37632 | kidnap | |
#38462 | swipe | |
#42454 | gip | |
#42903 | reproach | |
#49972 | defraud | |
#58296 | swindle | |
#65039 | persecute | |
#66795 | oppress | |
#68256 | shirk | |
#72172 | malign | |
#72473 | diddle | |
#73765 | defame | |
#74450 | memorise | |
#78097 | defile | |
#84156 | disparage | |
#85386 | molest | |
#87124 | abduct | |
#96993 | snarf | |
#113787 | gyp | |
#138234 | bunco | |
#141077 | vilify | |
#148587 | revile | |
#151654 | ravish | |
#164852 | victimize | |
#176519 | filch | |
#199693 | pilfer | |
#317019 | maltreat |
How to use victimize in a sentence?
The app displays police locations and we have verified with [ Hong Kong authorities ] that the app has been used to target and ambush police, threaten public safety, and criminals have used it to victimize residents in areas where they know there is no law enforcement, this app violates our guidelines and local laws, and we have removed it from the App Store.
She is an exemplar of a gross miscarriage of injustice rooted in Pakistan’s extremely unfair blasphemy laws and of how this law can victimize someone who should not be inside the criminal justice system whatsoever.
If you act like a victim the only people who will have an interest in you are they who victimize.
Our communities must be protected from sick individuals who exploit and victimize children, and also from liberal activist judges who abuse their sentencing discretion to let offenders off the hook. Federal sentencing guidelines for these heinous crimes are critical, and I am proud to support this good bill to ensure guidelines are strictly enforced.
For years, I thought that I was the only one, i kept this as a secret ... afraid no one is going to believe you, afraid society is going to victimize you.
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