WRONGING Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

wronging

verb

present participle of wrong

as in victimizing

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Sacramento County sheriff’s officials said Davis was accused of victimizing over 80 children throughout the United States, children from California and 25 other states, including Texas, Indiana, Florida and New York.

— Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 3 Sep. 2026
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

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The revised rule also allows landowners to clear areas that had been preserved as wildlife corridors on their land without being liable for harming the panthers.

— Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
Miners in poor countries may use the toxic metal to separate gold from other materials, harming people and the environment.

— Aniruddha Ghosal, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

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Federal authorities on Thursday charged a Boston-area man with harassing Katie Miller, the conservative podcaster and wife of senior White House aide Stephen Miller, in a case that sparked a heated debate among prosecutors and within the FBI.

— Jeremy Roebuck, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026
The Lincoln-Way East High School board voted to allow six students accused of racially harassing students from Homewood-Flossmoor to withdraw.

— Darius Johnson, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of harassing

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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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This shift from just hating and tormenting Mozart, and expanding that rage against God and his own mediocrity is what makes this play so profound and distinctive.

— Doni Wilson, Houston Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2026
The migraine tormenting the 32-year-old in April was even worse than usual.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2026

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Kyiv region military administration head Tymur Tkachenko said on Saturday that a warehouse and production premise had been hit, injuring four people.

— Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2026
Elephants can be extremely destructive and dangerous, and several African countries must confront the problem of elephant herds destroying farmers’ crops and infrastructure as well as killing or injuring people.

— Sello Motseta, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 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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In 1996, Pike was found guilty of first-degree murder for beating, torturing and killing Slemmer, a fellow Jobs Corps worker, in a remote area of the University of Tennessee Agricultural campus.

— Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
In 1995, Christa Pike confessed to murdering and torturing her classmate Colleen Slemmer.

— Robert Gebelhoff, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2026

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