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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But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.
From Time Magazine Archive
But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.
From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.
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
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
Hubbard was martyrized by the lumber trust's determination "to let the men in uniform do it."
From The Centralia Conspiracy by Chaplin, Ralph
Sebastians both, they were martyrized by the poisoned arrows of vulgar wit, shot at them from all sides and especially from the lofty thrones of hansom-cab drivers.
From The Roll-Call by Bennett, Arnold
We should be very foolish if we let ourselves by martyrized by that pair of lovers, who live on poetry!
From Colomba by Loyd, Lady Mary Sophia (Hely-Hutchinson)
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.
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)
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
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
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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