victimize
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It is well known that social status is linked to health, but her comments were also motivated by a mentality that victimises the most vulnerable.
From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2013
War prejudice indeed desires one kind of story only, and victimises those who give it what it does not want.
From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)
The bird victimises, not crows, but babblers; nevertheless the corvi seem to dislike it as intensely as they dislike koels.
From A Bird Calendar for Northern India by Dewar, Douglas
She is queer—eccentric—melancholy; she envelopes the people she victimises with a kind of moral poison; but you can't prove—so far, at least—that she is dangerous to herself or others.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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