victimed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]victimed (not comparable)
- (rare, now nonstandard) That has been made into a victim; victimized.
- 1995, Lance Morrow, Heart: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, pages 234–235:
- Breaking my retreat at last, I took a taxi to the campus of Florida International University and spent an hour with a professor named Anthony Maingot, an expert on the Caribbean, a refreshing man who impatiently waved away all thought of what poet Derek Walcott called (Maingot quoting him) "the historiography of the oppressed and the historiography of remorse" — meaning, I take it, the interminable cliches of the victimed and genocided.
Verb
[edit]victimed
- simple past and past participle of victim
References
[edit]- “victimed, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
