Other forms: victimised, victimising
To victimise is to single somebody out for unfair treatment. Victimise a whistleblower.
The singling out is what makes it victimising rather than general unfairness. In employment law to victimise somebody for making a complaint is a separate offence from the original wrong.
1verbvictimiseTo single somebody out for unfair treatment.
“The tribunal found that the firm had set out to victimise her.”
victimise is a treating.
Also accepted in games: victimize
Proto-Indo-European
*weyk-
Latin
victima
Middle French
victime
English
victim
English, today
victimise
From victim + -ise. victim Borrowed from Middle French victime, from Latin victima. From Middle French victime, from Latin victima (“sacrificial animal”). Although this root and victor drive from homophonous PIE roots, they are traditionally reconstructed as separate words and thus not cognates.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA