wronged

verb

Definition of wrongednext
past tense of wrong
as in victimized

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wronged
  1. victimized
  2. oppressed
  3. harmed
  4. harassed
  5. persecuted
  6. injured
  7. tormented
  8. tortured
Verb
  • Raise your hand if you’ve been victimized by the summertime jump scare that is a molting cardinal.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • Companies that do create the images could face a civil penalty of up to $500,000 and the people who have been victimized can seek damages.
    — Aki Nace, CBS News, 29 July 2026
Definition of victimized
Verb
  • Man oppressed woman legally, economically, socially, educationally, morally, professionally and religiously.
    — Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • Your structure sorts the whole world into two boxes, oppressor and oppressed.
    — Joyce Kamanitz, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2026
Definition of oppressed
Verb
  • State and local prosecutors would be able to sue chatbot operators for violating the measures, as well as parents or guardians of children who are harmed by companies that don’t follow them.
    — Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • There is more attention paid to buildings collapsing than to the actual people being harmed.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of harmed
Verb
  • Anyone with information about the incident or any other incident involving a mammal being harmed or harassed is asked to contact the NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement at 800-853-1964.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 27 July 2026
  • In court filings, Tesla has claimed that Vaughn and other plaintiffs failed to establish that they were harassed or discriminated against on the basis of race.
    — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
Definition of harassed
Verb
  • Although the two programs similarly target humanitarian concerns, being a TPS holder does not guarantee asylum, which requires that applicants prove they’ve been persecuted on specific grounds.
    — Cameron Pugh, Christian Science Monitor, 1 Aug. 2026
  • In The Bacchae, Dionysus becomes violent only because his existence has been denied and his followers persecuted, and his maenads similarly become destructive only when pursued.
    — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 31 July 2026
Definition of persecuted
Verb
  • Colin Gray’s sentencing represents the end of a harrowing road that began with the September 2024 shooting in which his son, then 14, fatally shot two students and two teachers and injured nine others at his Winder, Georgia, high school.
    — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
  • Colin Gray, father of the teen who killed four people and injured nine others in a 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School, is scheduled to be sentenced during a hearing that begins Thursday in a Barrow County courtroom.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
Definition of injured
Verb
  • Young, tormented by sickle-cell disease, saw many of those closest to him die by homicide or suicide.
    — Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Or suppose you’re being tormented by someone in power, but lack the ability to explain to others—or even to yourself—exactly how you’re being wronged.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
Definition of tormented
Verb
  • Dandara dos Santos was tortured and beaten to death by a group of twelve people, who eventually tossed her body in a wheelbarrow, shot her, and posted a video of the crime on social media.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
  • Yes, Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted, tortured and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after a White woman accused him of making an advance toward her.
    — Dan Zaksheske OutKick, FOXNews.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of tortured
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