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victimize (verb), victimizes; victimized; victimizing
1. To subject someone to a swindle or to a fraud: Some guy on the internet was victimizing a young woman by convincing her that she was the winner of a great deal of money if she would give him her personal bank identification information.
2. To single a person out unfairly for punishment or for ill treatment: Three teenage boys victimized a woman by demanding that she give them the money that she had in her purse and when she refused, they knocked her down and ran off with her purse.
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2. To single a person out unfairly for punishment or for ill treatment: Three teenage boys victimized a woman by demanding that she give them the money that she had in her purse and when she refused, they knocked her down and ran off with her purse.
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“victimize”
To swindle or to cheat someone out of money or to cause physical harm to a another person or to people. (2)
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