victimize
verb (used with object)
to make a victim of.
victimizer
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a word derived from
victimize.
Example Sentences
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Did you mean it when you said the victimizer may knock you down, but the victim must get up?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
One of the things that I tell my kids — they're young men now — is that the worst thing to be in the world is a victimizer.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2023
But it helps put it into a global context in which the roles of victim and victimizer seldom fall neatly along a color line.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 2022
And three years later, Mr. Kelly’s team invoked a similar defense to transform the victimizer into the victimized.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
Cheated by his guardians and neglected by his tutor, he was sent into the world half ruined, and wholly ignorant, to become at first a victim, and afterwards the victimizer.
From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever
