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
Example Sentences
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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 William Hassell Overton
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Arthur E. Becher
Very well, then! she would go to Brudenstein; she would not martyrize herself by being with a man on crutches!
From Halcyone by Elinor Glyn
Those who know Parisian life will readily understand how a woman of her temperament suffered, and was martyrized at heart by the scantiness of her pecuniary means.
From Bureaucracy by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
He still martyrized himself in his thoughts of Isabel.
From Blacksheep! Blacksheep! by Meredith Nicholson
His tie and socks were en suite and his gouty feet were martyrized to this scheme of camouflage by being pressed into a pair of tight brown and white shoes.
From Who Cares? a story of adolescence by Cosmo Hamilton
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 Marshall Pinckney Wilder
"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 Arnold Bennett
Oh, no," the doctor shook her head; "young couples are always martyrizing themselves for these events.
From The Nest Builder by Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
I don’t want to stop you martyrizing yourself in making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
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 May Sinclair
She would be capable of martyrizing the whole world to her sense of duty, her damnable, insane sense of duty....
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
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 George Allan England
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