(BrE also victimise) verb
[VN] [oftenpassive] to make sb suffer unfairly because you do not like them, their opinions, or sth that they have done:
For years the family had been victimized by racist neighbours. * The union claimed that some of its members had been victimized for taking part in the strike.
victimization, victimisation noun [U]
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