verb
Meaning 1
To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
victimize
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈvɪktɪmaɪz/
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verb
Meaning 2
To punish unjustly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To swindle or defraud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
punish unjustly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: victimise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punish, penalize, penalise
verb
Meaning 5
deprive of by deceit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cheat, rip off, chisel
Narrower terms: short-change, short
verb
Meaning 6
make a victim of
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I was victimized by this con-man
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: victimise
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wrong
Narrower terms: cheat, rip off, chisel, deceive, lead on, delude, cozen
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *weyk-der. Latin victima Middle French victimebor. English victim Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English victimize From victim + -ize.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: жертвам (žertvam) — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Catalan: victimitzar — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- French: victimiser — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- French: victimer — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Galician: vitimizar — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Georgian: მსხვერპლად ქცევა (msxverṗlad kceva) — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Georgian: მსხვერპლად შეწირვა (msxverṗlad šec̣irva) — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- German: viktimisieren — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- German: zum Opfer machen — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- German: opfern — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Italian: vittimizzare — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Latin: victimizō — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Latin: victimō — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Māori: hawene — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Portuguese: vitimar — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Portuguese: vitimizar — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Serbo-Croatian: viktimizirati — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Spanish: victimizar — to make someone a victim or sacrifice
- Bulgarian: измъчвам (izmǎčvam) — to punish someone unjustly
- German: schikanieren — to punish someone unjustly
- German: ungerecht behandeln — to punish someone unjustly
- German: ungerechterweise bestrafen — to punish someone unjustly
- Portuguese: injustiçar — to punish someone unjustly