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(verb) victimise
punish unjustly
(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble
deprive of by deceit
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
(verb) victimise
make a victim of
I was victimized by this con-man