VICTIMIZE

• (verb) punish unjustly

  synonyms : victimise

• (verb) deprive of by deceit

  "He swindled me out of my inheritance", "She defrauded the customers who trusted her", "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"

  synonyms : bunco , con , defraud , diddle , gip , goldbrick , gyp , hornswoggle , mulct , nobble , rook , scam , short-change , swindle

• (verb) make a victim of

  "I was victimized by this con-man"

  synonyms : victimise

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