The police are known to victimize anyone who isn't local to that town.
Source: tatoeba (5688321)
Victimize
//ˈvɪktɪmaɪz//
Synonyms for "victimize" (134 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (40)
Verb(4 words)
Related words (67)
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Translations
22 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- жертвам verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- измъчвам verb (to punish someone unjustly)
Catalan
1 entries- victimitzar verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
French
2 entries- victimer verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- victimiser verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Galician
1 entries- vitimizar verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Georgian
2 entries- მსხვერპლად ქცევა verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- მსხვერპლად შეწირვა verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
German
4 entries- opfern verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- schikanieren verb (to punish someone unjustly)
- ungerecht behandeln verb (to punish someone unjustly)
- ungerechterweise bestrafen verb (to punish someone unjustly)
Italian
1 entries- vittimizzare verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Latin
2 entries- victimizō verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- victimō verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Portuguese
3 entries- injustiçar verb (to punish someone unjustly)
- vitimar verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
- vitimizar verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- viktimizirati verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Spanish
1 entries- victimizar verb (to make someone a victim or sacrifice)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Hitler rose to power not by promising to victimize Jews but by convincing the German people that Jews were victimizing them.
Source: tatoeba (6366576)
Silent drones victimize more people.
Source: tatoeba (9664402)
Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.
Source: wiktionary
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