MEANING
To exploit, harm, or treat someone unfairly.
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Words that belong together
- victimize the vulnerable
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The scheme victimized isolated residents.
The official victimized those who complained.
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Word forms
- Base
- victimize
- Past tense
- victimized
- Past participle
- victimized
- Present participle
- victimizing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- victimize
- Present continuous
- am/is/are victimizing
- Present perfect
- have/has victimized
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been victimizing
- Past
- victimized
- Past continuous
- was/were victimizing
- Past perfect
- had victimized
- Past perfect continuous
- had been victimizing
- Future
- will victimize
- Future continuous
- will be victimizing
- Future perfect
- will have victimized
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been victimizing
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: victimize; victimizes; victimized; victimized; victimizing Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: victimizes.
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