victimize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a victim of
    victimise.
    • I was victimized by this con-man
  2. verb punish unjustly
    victimise.
  3. verb deprive of by deceit
    rook; scam; gip; nobble; goldbrick; con; short-change; mulct; gyp; bunco; hornswoggle; diddle; defraud; swindle.
    • 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

WordNet

Vic"tim*ize transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Victimized ; present participle & verbal noun Victimizing
Definitions
  1. To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

Webster 1913