transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪktɪmaɪz ]
( victimizes, victimizing, victimized)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
Note: in BRIT, also use 'victimise'
If someone is victimized , they are deliberately treated unfairly.
He felt the students had been victimized because they’d voiced opposition to the government.
VERB : be V-ed , also V n
• vic‧timi‧za‧tion
...society’s cruel victimization of women.
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