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- verb UK Alternative spelling of
victimize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb punish unjustly
- verb make a victim of
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Examples
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-- A commitment from the administration not to "victimise" any workers involved in the National Education and Allied Workers
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Politicians nervous about appearing to 'victimise' car users
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Taseer didn't say anything anti-Islamic, he just questioned the blasphemy law and whether it should be used to victimise innocent people.
Pakistan will implode if the US does not leave Afghanistan 2011
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If it squeaks through, a new taxpayer-funded agency will be created to help the cartels victimise their own customers in France.
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Cameron tried to cover up the demise of the "big society", with his racist multiculturalism speech where he tried to victimise British muslems, and pander to the ugly side of people like the EDL, and BNP.
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And he lived near me and he was going to victimise me the whole way home, you know?
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Distraction Burglars victimise elderly or vulnerable victims, usually stealing their life savings, after conning their way inside the house.
It Can’t Be……….. But It Is! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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Distraction Burglars victimise elderly or vulnerable victims, usually stealing their life savings, after conning their way [...]
December « 2008 « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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What I find, Joe, is that barbarians, by definition, are not very amenable to reasoned discourse or rational debate (if they were, they wouldn't believe in such demonstrably ridiculous concepts as "sin", nor victimise other human beings on the basis of skin colour, sex or consenting sexual preference).
Mind Meld Make-Up Test: Orson Scott Card on Young Adult Fiction 2008
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The environment groups, which include Global Witness, Greenpeace International, Fern and Rainforest Foundation, also fear that Redd is being used by governments to victimise and steal the carbon rights of people who live and depend on the forests.
United Nations warned that corruption is undermining grants to stop logging 2010
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