victimize, victimise
(verb) punish unjustly
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con
(verb) deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”;
victimize, victimise
(verb) make a victim of; “I was victimized by this con-man”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
victimize (third-person singular simple present victimizes, present participle victimizing, simple past and past participle victimized)
To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
To punish someone unjustly.
To swindle or defraud someone.
Source: Wiktionary
Vic"tim*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Victimized; p. pr. & vb. n. Victimizing.]
Definition: To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
29 September 2024
(noun) the technical aspects of doing something; “a mechanism of social control”; “mechanisms of communication”; “the mechanics of prose style”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
