WRONGING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

wronging

verb

present participle of wrong

as in victimizing

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While the administration spins the myth of vicious criminals victimizing American citizens, the past months have revealed the truth.

— Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026
Between 1974 and 1978, Bundy raped and murdered dozens of young women and girls across the country, victimizing women in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Florida.

— Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 2 Apr. 2026

Definition of victimizing

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The concerns that led to the committee being created 44 years ago – fears about krill fishing harming krill-dependent Antarctic wildlife – have not diminished over the decades.

— Kim S. Bernard, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026
Meanwhile, local and federal authorities have launched antitrust probes to investigate how Compass may be harming real estate markets.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

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Boys are bullying girls in school, customers are harassing Target employees, and there’s now a report that a male doctor asked a woman to undress while wearing the glasses, which can discreetly take photos and videos.

— O. Rose Broderick, STAT, 21 Aug. 2026
Luis Jacobo had been stalking and harassing the victim, calling her hundreds of times a day, appearing uninvited at her home and workplace and leaving unwanted notes and flowers, according to prosecutors.

— City News Service, Daily News, 19 Aug. 2026

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Claiming that other people expressing their civil rights is oppressing them, and politicizing what are supposed to be non-partisan parts of how the government works on the state and federal level.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 July 2026
Norway was itself a colonizer, and programs oppressing indigenous cultures and languages were in place well into the 1960s.

— Ola Morris Innset, The Dial, 2 June 2026

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Aside from tormenting the sole out transgender member of Congress by waging a campaign to bar her from using the women’s bathroom in the Capitol, Mace had been a side player that year.

— Annie Karni, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2026
The final scene shows the Bowden family grilling in that same backyard on a sunny day, seemingly happy with Max no longer tormenting them.

— Benjamin VanHoose, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026

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Scott Quigley, then embedded with the Middlesex DA’s office, crashed his cruiser into a wheelchair van in December 2023, injuring a man inside who died at the hospital a month later.

— Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
In 2021, a teen was arrested after wounding two students and injuring two others in a shooting at a high school in Newport News, Virginia.

— Cindy Von Quednow, CNN Money, 24 Aug. 2026

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Biden weaponized Law Enforcement against his political opponent, while also persecuting many other innocent people.

— New York Times, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Jack Hayford, the founder of the King’s University, in Texas, claimed that the film was persecuting Christians, who only wanted to be treated equally.

— Isaac Butler, New Yorker, 30 May 2026

Definition of persecuting

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But, if not, then stop using the existence of those goals as a way of torturing yourself.

— Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
Arabella’s adoptive mother, Leticia McCormack, and her parents, Adella and Stanley Tom, were arrested three months later and accused of torturing the young girl to death.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2026

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