noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ hapless , helpless , innocent , poor , unfortunate , unwilling
▪
He defrauded his innocent ~s of millions.
▪ unsuspecting , unwitting
▪ easy
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Tourists are easy ~s for pickpockets.
▪ passive
▪ willing
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In his fantasies, women became passive and sometimes even willing ~s.
▪ intended , potential
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The intended ~s were selected because they seemed vulnerable.
▪ alleged
▪ primary
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Boys are the primary ~s of corporal punishment.
▪ child , elderly , young
▪
the child ~s of the war
▪ female , male
▪ civilian
▪ injured
▪ AIDS , cancer , heart-attack , plague , stroke
▪ burn ( esp. AmE ), burns ( BrE )
▪ genocide , Holocaust
▪ bomb , bombing
▪ accident , crash
▪ disaster , earthquake , famine , flood , hurricane , tsunami
▪
The government is sending aid to flood ~s.
▪ abuse , assault , crime , domestic-violence , homicide ( esp. AmE ), identity-theft , incest , kidnap , lynching ( esp. AmE ), murder , rape , terror , torture , etc.
▪
The helpline takes calls from child-abuse ~s.
▪
the failure to protect domestic-violence ~s
▪ gunshot
▪ suicide
▪ sacrificial
▪ fashion
▪
She's a fashion ~ (= wears the newest fashions even if they do not suit her) .
VERB + VICTIM
▪ be , become , fall
▪
ways to avoid becoming a ~ of fraud
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Her son fell ~ to tuberculosis.
▪ portray sb as
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In his trial, he tried to portray himself as the ~ of an uncaring society.
▪ claim
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The train crash claimed its tenth ~ yesterday when the driver died in hospital.
▪ compensate
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a bill aimed at compensating ~s of air pollution
▪ blame
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The cut in benefits for the unemployed is a classic case of blaming the ~.
▪ aid , assist , help
▪ rescue , save
▪ treat
▪ stalk
▪ lure
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He managed to lure ~s into his car.
▪ choose , select , target
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He targeted younger ~s, often single women.
▪ identify
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Not all ~s have been identified yet.
▪ commemorate , honour/honor , remember
▪
a service to remember the ~s of the terrorist attacks
▪ bury
VICTIM + VERB
▪ die
▪ survive (sth)
▪ suffer (sth)
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The ~ suffered severe cuts to the upper lip.
VICTIM + NOUN
▪ culture , mentality
▪
This ~ mentality is sadly all too prevalent in our country.
▪ status
▪
groups claiming ~ status
▪ impact statement
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states which allow ~s to make a ~ impact statement
▪ advocate ( AmE )
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ of
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They were the ~s of a cruel hoax.
PHRASES
▪ play the ~
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Stop playing the victim—you knew exactly what was happening.
▪ a ~ of your/its own success
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The small company became a ~ of its own success when it could not supply all its orders on time.