to groom
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- verb
- /ɡrum/
- Offensive
- I was abused and and and groomed for nearly a decade by successive men.
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Watch on YouTubeSo Peter was saying he was raped, he was sexually molested, groomed throughout this whole process.
- So Peter was saying he was raped, he was sexually molested, groomed throughout this whole process.
- I was abused and and and groomed for nearly a decade by successive men.
- And, and big theme from that too, is he is alleging that Diddy groomed him for homosexual sex.
- He's got a brothel of young girls that he's groomed.
- But now was he was like in the beginning when he was trying to groom you and like, like he told you, he was treating you and bringing you up as his own son.
- His cousin was groomed and a gangs of men.
- These people don't care about you, but they'll groom you.
- And unbeknownst to me at that moment in time, he's grooming, He's seeing here's a hard working young kid, right?
Examples
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Many "tricky people" who are grooming children take many small baby steps to get where they want.
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Nine times out of ten, they are just grooming you for sex, whether you want it or not.
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And then you took your offer back and told me that you were going to groom me.
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What he was willing to settle for was a chance to groom her.
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Yeah, I feel like I was just groomed right there, right?
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No, we groomed you since you were a child, okay?
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So, he started grooming me in order to preach.
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You were all three groomed much like a pedophile grooms a victim.
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As a worst-case outcome, he may be grooming you for sexual predatory behavior.
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The police warned that many predators groom children online by gaining their trust before exploiting them.
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How Manipulative
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Surface Forms
Etymology
The harmful meaning of groom — to gain someone's trust in order to abuse or exploit them — comes from the general idea of 'preparing' someone but used in a bad way. So when people say someone was groomed, they mean the person was slowly prepared and tricked so they could be hurt or exploited.