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
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)
Ah! how easy it is to martyrize one's self by some fatal decision made grandly in the exultation of a supreme moment!
From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold
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
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
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.
"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
I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself.'
From Scenes of Clerical Life by Eliot, George
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 Bennett, Arnold
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
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
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