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{
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"past"
]
},
{
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"past"
]
},
{
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}
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"pos": "verb",
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"To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice."
],
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[
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"victim"
],
[
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"sacrifice"
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],
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"(transitive) To make (someone) a victim or sacrifice."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
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"English transitive verbs"
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"examples": [
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"ref": "2025 January 19, Heba Gowayed, “The Laken Riley Act exposes Democrats’ hypocrisy on immigration”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
"text": "Yet, even as Democratic party leadership has decried this mass deportation plan and even as the bill maligns Democrats as victimizing Americans through its policy of “open borders,” 48 Democratic members of Congress voted for this GOP-backed bill.",
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"To punish unjustly."
],
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"(transitive) To punish unjustly."
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"To swindle or defraud."
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "žertvam",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "жертвам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimitzar"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimiser"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimer"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "vitimizar"
},
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "msxverṗlad kceva",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "მსხვერპლად ქცევა"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"lang_code": "ka",
"roman": "msxverṗlad šec̣irva",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "მსხვერპლად შეწირვა"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "viktimisieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "zum Opfer machen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "opfern"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "vittimizzare"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimizō"
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{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"lang_code": "la",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimō"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "hawene"
},
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "poświęcać w ofierze"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "poświęcić w ofierze"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "vitimar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "vitimizar"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"lang_code": "sh",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "viktimizirati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"lang_code": "es",
"sense": "to make someone a victim or sacrifice",
"word": "victimizar"
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "izmăčvam",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"word": "измъчвам"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"word": "schikanieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"word": "ungerecht behandeln"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"word": "ungerechterweise bestrafen"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "prześladować"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "represjonować"
},
{
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to punish someone unjustly",
"word": "injustiçar"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "oszukiwać"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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"word": "oszukać"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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"word": "sprzeniewierzać"
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"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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"code": "pl",
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"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
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{
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"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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"word": "zdefraudować"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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"word": "wyłudzać"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "wyłudzić"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to defraud",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "szwindlować"
}
],
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}
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