victim

[Vic·tim]

Use the word victim to describe someone who has been wronged or harmed, like the victim of the armed robbery or the stores that went out of business, victims of the slow economy.

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A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

Noun
an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

Noun
a person who is tricked or swindled


n.
A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

n.
A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.

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A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

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Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.


Victim

Vic"tim , n. [L. victima: cf. F. victime.] 1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Led like a victim, to my death I'll go.
2. A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition. 3. A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident. 4. Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull. [Colloq.]

A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

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Usage Examples

No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.

I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.

ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful romantic idea about love which was almost that you were a victim and there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be.

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

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Other Usage Examples

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.

We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

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