victimized
victimized is the simple past and past participle of victimize.
Meaning of victimize
Verb
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 unjustly.
- 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.2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- To swindle or defraud.
Adjective
victimized (comparative more victimized, superlative most victimized)
- Having been made into a victim or treated like one.
Forms of victimized
| comparative | more victimized |
|---|---|
| superlative | most victimized |
Words formed from victimized
Questions about victimized
- What does victimized mean?
- Victimized means having been made into a victim or treated like one.
- What is victimized the simple past and past participle of?
- Victimized is the simple past and past participle of victimize.
- What part of speech is victimized?
- Victimized is an adjective.
Words near victimized in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: victimized (page history and authors); victimize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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