1. (verb)victimize, victimise make a victim of "I was victimized by this con-man"
2. (verb)victimize, victimise punish unjustly
3. (verb)victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con 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"