victimize
verb (used with object)
to make a victim of.
victimizing
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present participleof victimize.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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While she wishes she didn’t have this story to tell, Yeager decided to share it to “make sure this kind of thing doesn’t keep victimizing others.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
They’d been victimizing Spanish speakers in the United States for years until, in 2015, the operation expanded with the help of English-speaking inmates in Mexico, Arbuthnot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
The Pierce County district attorney has enhanced the possible punishment for each charge by up to six years because she’s accused of victimizing someone 60 or older.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022
Brooks noted that the Tesla crashes are victimizing more people who are not in the Tesla vehicles.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2022
He had always disliked the man; now he malignantly resented his very existence; Mahr became the personification of the thing he most wished to forget--the victimizing power of the woman who had enthralled him.
From Out of the Ashes by Ethel Watts Mumford
