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 Overton, William Hassell
Very well, then! she would go to Brudenstein; she would not martyrize herself by being with a man on crutches!
From Halcyone by Glyn, Elinor
The fear of being no more loved by Josephine—the thought of having her inconstant—of seeing her … But I martyrize myself with anguish!
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
"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)
And in the man's eyes she no longer saw the savage Julian, but an intensely suffering creature, a creature martyrized by destiny.
From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold
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 Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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 Hamilton, Cosmo
But if the men are enslaved by polygamy, the women are martyrized.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.
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
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)
I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George
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
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