victim
IPA: vˈɪktʌm
noun
- One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:
- One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.
- One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.
- One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
- One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.
- A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
- (by extension, Christianity) The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
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Examples of "victim" in Sentences
- The victim is semiconscious.
- The shame stops the victims from reporting the crime.
- Bishonen was the victim of targeted misogynist harassment.
- The victim hopefully will be the target of whoever catches the ball.
- It is seen to personalize the crime and elevate the status of the victim.
- Rice was the victim of one of the earliest sensational crimes of the 1900s.
- The gender of the victim and the abuser are not what makes the act a crime.
- If we pare down the article to the crime and the victim, we have 4 sentences.
- It is your contravention of the law to put up personal data not the victim's.
- The rescue tube is wrapped around the victim with the clasp behind the person.
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