The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - victimize v.

1) prey on, pursue, go after, pick on, bully, take advantage of, persecute, exploit, use: Increasingly, older people are being victimized by unscrupulous relatives. 2) cheat, swindle, bilk, defraud, dupe, hoodwink, deceive, gull, fool, trick, outwit, outsmart, outfox, Colloq snooker, flimflam, Slang suck or sucker in, screw, shaft, take (in) , rook: The confidence team used the old Spanish handkerchief trick to victimize unsuspecting tourists.