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
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
However, she believes Mack "needs to be held accountable, and she was also a victimizer."
From Fox News ● Apr. 30, 2021
Who is the victim, who is the victimizer, and how easily are those roles reversed?
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2020
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
