victimize

Other forms of victimize

past tense

victimized·

present participle

victimizing·

third person

victimizes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about victimize

What does victimize mean?

victimize means "make a victim of". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in victimize?

victimize has 3 syllables: vic-ti-mize. The stress falls on "vic". In IPA it is /ˈvɪktəmaɪz/.

What is another word for victimize?

Close synonyms include victimise, victimise, swindle, rook, goldbrick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is victimize a common word?

victimize is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.