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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man" [syn: victimize, victimise]
2: punish unjustly [syn: victimize, victimise]
3: 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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ized; -izing) Date: 1830 1. to make a victim of 2. to subject to deception or fraud ; cheat • victimization noun • victimizer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (also -ise) 1 single out (a person) for punishment or unfair treatment, esp. dismissal from employment. 2 make (a person etc.) a victim. Derivatives: victimization n. victimizer n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Victimize Vic"tim*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victimized; p. pr. & vb. n. Victimizing.] To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(victimizes, victimizing, victimized) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Note: in BRIT, also use 'victimise' If someone is victimized, they are deliberately treated unfairly. He felt the students had been victimized because they'd voiced opposition to the government. VERB: be V-ed, also V n • victimization ...society's cruel victimization of women.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. (Colloq.) Cheat, dupe, trick, defraud, deceive, swindle, cozen, chouse, gull, over-reach, befool, fool, beguile, circumvent, diddle, hoodwink, jockey, impose upon, put upon, practise upon, play upon, take in.

Moby Thesaurus

bamboozle, beat, beguile of, beset, bilk, bleed, bleed white, bully, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, circumvent, clip, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, crib, deceive, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, dupe, elude, euchre, evade, exploit, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, foil, fool, frustrate, fudge, get around, get round, give the runaround, give the slip, go after, go one better, gouge, gull, gyp, harass, harry, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up, hoodwink, hound, hunt, immolate, molest, mulct, oppress, outfigure, outflank, outfox, outgeneral, outguess, outmaneuver, outplay, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overcharge, overprice, overreach, overtax, pack the deal, pass the buck, persecute, pick on, pigeon, practice fraud upon, prey on, profiteer, pursue, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shaft, shave, shortchange, skin, snooker, soak, stack the cards, stick, sting, stonewall, suck in, surcharge, swindle, take a dive, take advantage of, take in, thimblerig, throw a fight, torment, trick, use