VICTIM


Meaning of VICTIM in English

(~s)

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

1.

A ~ is someone who has been hurt or killed.

Not all the ~s survived...

Statistically our chances of being the ~s of violent crime are remote.

N-COUNT

2.

A ~ 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 ~ of racial prejudice...

Infectious diseases are spreading among many of the flood ~s.

N-COUNT

3.

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

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

PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n

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