victimize

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And it does not choose anybody to victimize, as long as you are at high risk of being infected, then you are a candidate.

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  1. transitive verb To subject to swindle or fraud.
  2. transitive verb To make a victim of.

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  • "It really is unthinkable that a con artist would try to victimize someone trying to receive assistance in a time of need," Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said in a statement on Thursday. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
  • "Too many of those people are nothing more than predators looking for young gay men to rob and victimize," he said. —  Advocate.com Daily News
  • Entitlement of representation admits greed's tendency to victimize reflexively. —  Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union
  • Those who don't die are more likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, more likely to be arrested as a juvenile, more likely to develop addictions to alcohol and drugs, more likely to become a teen parent and more likely to victimize their own children than a person who wasn't abused as a child.
  • "It really is unthinkable that a con artist would try to victimize someone trying to receive assistance in a time of need," Attorney General Bill McCollum said. —  Orlando Business News - Local Orlando News | The Orlando Business Journal
 

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victimize:   victimized ·  victimizes
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/ˈvɪktɪmaɪz/
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