victimize
verb (used with object)
to make a victim of.
were victimizing
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past progressiveof victimize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The president of the bar association wrote in a column last year that “hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of California lawyers” were victimizing people “at the most vulnerable point in their lives.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2010
