victimizing

The word “victimizing” has 4 syllables: vic-tim-iz-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈvɪktəˌmaɪzɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for victimizing?

In the thesaurus, “victimizing” has 63 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for victimizing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for victimizing

  • bamboozling
  • beating
  • betraying
  • bilking
  • bitching
  • bleeding
  • cheating
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chousing
  • clipping
  • conning
  • cozening
  • deceiving
  • defrauding
  • diddling
  • doing
  • doing in
  • double-crossing
  • duping
  • euchring
  • exploiting
  • extorting
  • fast-talking
  • fiddling
  • fleecing
  • flimflamming
  • fooling
  • gaffing
  • gouging
  • gulling
  • hosing
  • hustling
  • milking
  • mulcting
  • nicking
  • nobbling
  • overcharging
  • plucking
  • reaming
  • ripping off
  • rooking
  • screwing
  • selling a bill of goods to
  • shaking down
  • shortchanging
  • shorting
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • soaking
  • squeezing
  • sticking
  • stiffing
  • stinging
  • suckering
  • swindling
  • taking for a ride
  • taking to the cleaners
  • thimblerigging
  • tricking
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • wringing

Meanings of victimizing

  • verb
    1. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
    2. To punish someone unjustly.
    3. To swindle or defraud someone.

Example Sentences

  • The hacker was accused of victimizing hundreds of users through phishing attacks.
  • She spoke out against the regime for victimizing political opponents.
  • They were caught victimizing people with false medical claims.
  • Victimizing others for personal gain is both unethical and illegal.
  • The film was criticized for victimizing a specific community through stereotypes.

On this page you'll find 63 synonyms or another words to victimizing, such as: bamboozling, beating, betraying, bilking, bitching, bleeding, cheating.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

gaffing

  • bamboozling
  • beating
  • beguiling
  • betraying
  • bilking
  • bitching
  • bleeding
  • bluffing
  • buffaloing
  • burning
  • catching
  • cheating
  • chiseling
  • chiselling
  • chousing
  • clipping
  • conning
  • cozening
  • deceiving
  • defrauding
  • deluding
  • diddling
  • doing
  • doing a number on
  • doing in
  • double-crossing
  • duping
  • euchring
  • exploiting
  • extorting
  • faking out
  • fast-talking
  • fiddling
  • fleecing
  • flimflamming
  • fooling
  • gammoning
  • gouging
  • gulling
  • having
  • having on
  • hoaxing
  • hoodwinking
  • hornswoggling
  • hosing
  • humbugging
  • hustling
  • juggling
  • kidding
  • leading one down the garden path
  • leading one up the garden path
  • milking
  • misguiding
  • misinforming
  • misleading
  • mulcting
  • nicking
  • nobbling
  • overcharging
  • plucking
  • putting on
  • reaming
  • ripping off
  • rooking
  • screwing
  • selling a bill of goods to
  • shaking down
  • shortchanging
  • shorting
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • snookering
  • snowing
  • soaking
  • spoofing
  • squeezing
  • sticking
  • stiffing
  • stinging
  • stringing along
  • suckering
  • sucking in
  • swindling
  • taking for a ride
  • taking in
  • taking to the cleaners
  • teasing
  • thimblerigging
  • tricking
  • victimizing
  • wrenching
  • wresting
  • wringing

racking

  • acute
  • afflicting
  • aggravating
  • agitating
  • agonizing
  • alarming
  • anguishing
  • annoying
  • arctic
  • arduous
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • backbreaking
  • badgering
  • battering
  • bedeviling
  • besetting
  • besieging
  • biting
  • bitter
  • blaring
  • bothering
  • bruising
  • brutal
  • bugging
  • burning
  • chafing
  • chastening
  • chilling
  • cold
  • consuming
  • crippling
  • crushing
  • cursing
  • cutting
  • damaging
  • deafening
  • demanding
  • discomforting
  • discomposing
  • disquieting
  • distressing
  • disturbing
  • dogging
  • earsplitting
  • exasperating
  • excruciating
  • exhausting
  • exquisite
  • extreme
  • fatiguing
  • fierce
  • flustering
  • fraying
  • freezing
  • frosty
  • galling
  • getting
  • grating
  • grieving
  • grinding
  • griping
  • grueling
  • hagriding
  • hairy
  • harassing
  • hard
  • harming
  • harrowing
  • harrying
  • harsh
  • heart-rending
  • heart-wrenching
  • heartbreaking
  • heavy
  • high
  • high-pitched
  • hounding
  • hurting
  • impairing
  • insufferable
  • intense
  • irking
  • irritating
  • keen
  • knifelike
  • laborious
  • laming
  • loud
  • mangling
  • martyring
  • molesting
  • mutilating
  • nerve-racking
  • nettling
  • numbing
  • oppressing
  • overpowering
  • overwhelming
  • painful
  • paining
  • panging
  • peeving
  • penetrating
  • persecuting
  • perturbing
  • pestering
  • piercing
  • piquing
  • plaguing
  • poignant
  • powerful
  • pricking
  • pulling
  • punishing
  • pursuing
  • putting out
  • raging
  • rasping
  • raw
  • rending
  • riding
  • riling
  • roaring
  • searing
  • severe
  • sharp
  • shattering
  • shooting
  • shrill
  • smarting
  • smiting
  • soaring
  • stabbing
  • stentorian
  • stentorious
  • stiff
  • stinging
  • straining
  • strenuous
  • stressing
  • stretching
  • striking
  • struggling
  • sudden
  • suffering
  • taxing
  • tearing
  • terrifying
  • thin
  • tingling
  • tiring
  • tormenting
  • tortuous
  • torturesome
  • torturing
  • torturous
  • traumatic
  • treble
  • troubling
  • trying
  • tyrannizing
  • unbearable
  • unendurable
  • upsetting
  • vehement
  • vexing
  • victimizing
  • violent
  • weakening
  • wintry
  • worrying
  • wounding
  • wrenching
  • wringing

abusing

  • affronting
  • aspersing
  • assailing
  • attacking
  • bad-mouthing
  • bashing
  • beating up on
  • belaboring
  • belittling
  • berating
  • blackguarding
  • blaspheming
  • blasting
  • bleeding
  • brutalizing
  • bullying
  • burning
  • castigating
  • chastising
  • cheating
  • chiding
  • commercializing
  • commodifying
  • corrupting
  • criticizing
  • cursing
  • debasing
  • degrading
  • derogating
  • desecrating
  • disparaging
  • excoriating
  • execrating
  • exploiting
  • fleecing
  • fulminating
  • haranguing
  • harassing
  • harming
  • harrying
  • hurting
  • ill-treating
  • ill-using
  • imprecating
  • injuring
  • insult
  • insulting
  • jerking around
  • kicking around
  • lambasting
  • leveraging
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • lighting into
  • maltreating
  • manhandling
  • manipulating
  • messing over
  • milking
  • misapplying
  • misemploying
  • mishandling
  • mismanaging
  • mistreating
  • misusing
  • molesting
  • oppressing
  • outraging
  • overcharging
  • persecuting
  • perverting
  • pimping
  • potshotting
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • putting down
  • rebuking
  • reprimanding
  • reviling
  • sailing into
  • sandbagging
  • savaging
  • scathing
  • scolding
  • skinning
  • slamming
  • slandering
  • slurring
  • soaking
  • sticking
  • taking apart
  • tormenting
  • torturing
  • trading on
  • traducing
  • trashing
  • twisting
  • tying into
  • using
  • victimizing
  • vilifying
  • violating
  • vituperating
  • walking on
  • whipping
  • working
  • wronging

ill-treating

ill-using


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