martyrize
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make a martyr of.
The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians.
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to torment.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of martyrize
1400–50; late Middle English martirizen < Medieval Latin martyrizāre. See martyr, -ize
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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
They martyrize themselves by sacrificing everything; they spoil them and convert them into ungrateful lovers.
From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell
I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
The malady which had for so long martyrized the great statesman had afflicted him heavily of late.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by McCarthy, Justin
But each time, though he martyrized his soul in patience, he was forced to bring up the question that would not let him rest.
From Murder in Any Degree by Johnson, Owen
"By the way," said Hilda, seized by a sudden impulse, which had its origin in Sarah's tone at once martyrized and accusing,--"by the way, who is it that's been talking scandal about me and George?"
From Hilda Lessways by Bennett, Arnold
It is no longer so very laudable for a young man to pay his way through college; and Morris Leighton had done this easily and without caring to be praised or martyrized for doing so.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"I am supposed to be left to myself in the mornings," said Peter senior, martyrized.
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by Williamson, C. N. (Charles Norris)
For some reason—perhaps because they thought their case against him absolutely secure and wanted to avoid any appearance of unfairness or of martyrizing him—this restriction had not yet been laid upon him.
From The Air Trust by England, George Allan
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Hale, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson
When he thought of her in his monstrous shop, wilting in the heat, bowing deferentially to fools, martyrizing her soul for less than two pounds a week, he thought of kings' daughters sold into slavery.
From Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Bennett, Arnold
I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George
She thought of how these men, these Brodricks, behaved to genius wherever they met it; how, among them, they had driven poor Jinny all but mad, martyrizing her in the name of fact.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
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