Meaning of victim | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceit, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular
2. One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceit, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:
3. One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.
4. a person who receives ill-treatment, injury etc. a murder victim; Food is being sent to the victims of the disaster. slagoffer ضَحِيَّه жертва vítima oběť das Opfer offer; -offer θύμαvíctima ohver قربانی uhri victime קוֹרבָּן शिकार žrtva áldozat korban fórnarlamb vittima 犠牲者 희생자 auka, nukentėjusysis upuris mangsa slachtofferoffer, –rammet ofiaravítima vic­ti­mă жертва obeť žrtev žrtva offer เหยื่อ kurban 受害人 жертва شکار، متاثرہ فرد nạn nhân 受害人
   etc
5. One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.
6. victima.
7. One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
8. One who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act: a victim of a mugging.
9. One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.
10. A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.
11. A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
12. One who is harmed by or made to suffer under a circumstance or condition: victims of war; victims of an epidemic; victims of poverty.
13. The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
    broadly
14. A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of: the victim of a cruel hoax.
15. a person or thing that suffers harm, death, etc, from another or from some adverse act, circumstance, etc: victims of tyranny.
16. a person who is tricked or swindled; dupe
17. a living person or animal sacrificed in a religious rite
18. a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: war victims.

Equivalents

Examples

“The victim of the robbery gave a detailed statement.”

“crime victim”

“victim of abuse”

“play the victim”

“the youngest victims of the brutal war”

“victim of a bad decision by a rushed and overworked judge”

“According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.”

“Flexibility, one of the hallmarks of German military doctrine, was a victim of the war.”

“She saw herself as a victim of circumstance.”

“The villian, perceiving his danger, groped about in search of his victim, gave him another blow and disappeared.”

““There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]””

“The role of victim, whether represented by a character on stage or conveyed verbally, is the necessary counterpart of the evil-doer.”

“victims of assault; the murderer's victims”

“became another victim of the latest scam”

“a fundraiser for victims of AIDS; a victim of a car crash”

““I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,[…]the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, […] !””

“a victim of his own pride; a victim of her own incompetence”

“the newcomer never managed to make friends, a victim of the town's deep distrust of outsiders”

“a victim of sexism; victims of a racist system”

“relief efforts to help victims of the hurricane”

“victim of an optical illusion; victim of a string of bad luck”

“local businesses were the main victims of the economic downturn”

“To some extent the schools and colleges are victims of conditions beyond their control: rapid population growth and mobility, country; to-city migration, unpredictable economic and social changes wrought by technology, […]”

“As Ella Shohat (1988) incisively argued some years ago now, the historical role of 'victim' to Zionism's racialising and nationalising frame is one that has been shared – albeit not in identical ways – by Palestinians and Mizrahim, those Sephardic or Arab Jews whose presence was solicited for the structural and demographic efficacy of the fledgling Jewish state.”

“Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale.[…]Rock-filled torrents smashed vehicles and homes, burying victims under rubble and sludge.”

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