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.
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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 Arthur E. Becher
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 L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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
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 Arnold Bennett
Archie and Adelle were hungry at this period for more money and felt themselves martyrized by the whim of an ill-natured old man who had arbitrarily made them wait to be wholly happy.
From Clark's Field by Robert Herrick
"I am supposed to be left to myself in the mornings," said Peter senior, martyrized.
From Winnie Childs The Shop Girl by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
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
But if the men are enslaved by polygamy, the women are martyrized.
From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers
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)
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
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
I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
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
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