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.