victimizer
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8.3
- noun
- /ˈvɪktɪmaɪzər/
- US
:
victimizador
- The victimizer used psychological tactics to manipulate his target into feeling helpless.
- victimizer and victim
I was trying to make the point that we've poisoned relations by making a, a framework in which one group is the victimizers, one group is the victims.
- I was trying to make the point that we've poisoned relations by making a, a framework in which one group is the victimizers, one group is the victims.
- There was that so that victim and victimizer narrative very present between white and black folks historically.
Examples
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But victims become victimizers and these people are dangerous.
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Immigrants and established Chinese were thus pitted against one another as victims and victimizers.
Academic text (2005) -
Or is it your position that the U.S. is always the victimizer, never the victim?
Blog text (6) -
Both victim and victimizer suffer the damage.
Academic text (1993) -
Indeed, if Titus has been a victimizer, he also becomes a victim.
Academic text (2000) -
In our Manichean view, there is only one victim and one victimizer.
Blog text (5) -
Our European allies tried, with good intentions, to help the victims but found themselves shielding the victimizers.
Academic text (2000) -
Teachers are their victimizers.
Academic text (2014) -
Any loss of respect for life is a tragic occurrence because it divides human beings into victims and victimizers.
Academic text (1999) -
In his own narrative, he crosses this distance between himself, an Indigenous person, and the Japanese Canadians by making his character Coyote both a victimizer and a victim in the internment.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
301
3.2
A person who scares or hurts people who are weaker
167
2.5
A person who tries to hurt someone or damage their things
86
5.3
A person who treats someone cruelly or violently, often over time
85
6.6
A person who attacks someone
33
7.5
A person who has power and treats people cruelly or unfairly
19
8.4
A person who takes advantage of others for their own benefit
16
7.7
A person who causes very bad physical pain to punish or make someone talk
12
7.9
A person who hurts someone on purpose, often again and again
11
6.3
A person who repeatedly bothers, threatens, or scares others
7
8.1
A person who repeatedly hits or hurts someone in their home
5
7.1
A person who uses others selfishly to get money or power
4
7.9
A person who treats others cruelly because of their race, religion, or beliefs over a long time
1
7.4
A person who causes pain or distress to someone on purpose
1
7.5
A person who scares or threatens others to make them do what they want
1
7.8
A person who attacks someone physically
A person who hurts people or animals on purpose
A person who hurts another person
A person who keeps criticizing someone very harshly, often in public
Antonyms
How Harmful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Victimizer comes from victim (from Latin victima, a 'sacrifice') plus the endings -ize ('make') and -er ('a person who does something'). So a victimizer is someone who 'makes' another person a victim, which is why it means a person who harms or exploits someone.