VICTIM


Meaning of VICTIM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ vɪktɪm ]

( victims)

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.

1.

A victim is someone who has been hurt or killed.

Not all the victims survived...

Statistically our chances of being the victims of violent crime are remote.

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2.

A victim is someone who has suffered as a result of someone else’s actions or beliefs, or as a result of unpleasant circumstances.

He was a victim of racial prejudice...

Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood victims.

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3.

If you fall victim to something or someone, you suffer as a result of them, or you are killed by them.

In the early 1960s, Blyton fell victim to Alzheimer’s disease...

PHRASE : V inflects , PHR n

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