(original sense) A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist
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
A person who has been affected by a disaster There are three classes of victims: primary victims-- those who are affected by the physical impact of the disaster; secondary victims-- those who reside within an affected community or on the border of an affected area and suffer economic loss due to the disaster or actions taken by relief operations; and tertiary victims-- those who are indirectly affected Tertiary victims may live in the same country, but not necessarily in the disaster areas See also victim distribution
A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of
A living creature which is slain and offered as human or animal sacrifice, usually in a religious rite; by extension, the transfigurated body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist
A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident
A relocation item in a given module into which is copied the address of a target For a dynamic link, an import in the file on disk becomes the address, direct or indirect, of an item in another module already loaded See target
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