Main entry: victimise, victimize
Definition: punish unjustly
Main entry: hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize
Definition: deprive of by deceit
Usage: 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
Main entry: victimise, victimize
Definition: make a victim of
Usage: I was victimized by this con-man