英和和英

語源

From victim +‎ -ize.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvɪktɪmaɪz/

動詞

victimize (third-person singular simple present victimizes, present participle victimizing, simple past and past participle victimized)

1. (transitive) To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice.
2. (transitive) To punish unjustly.
   • 2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.

3. (transitive) To swindle or defraud.

派生語