victim

Definition of victim in English English dictionary: (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; An aggrieved or disadvantaged party in a crime (e.g. swindle.); A person who suffers any other injury, loss, or damage as a result of a voluntary undertaking; Narratology. A character who is conquered or manipulated by a villain; An unfortunate person who suffers from a disaster or other adverse circumstance; Anyone who is physically harmed by another; {n} a sacrifice, something destroyed; 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; {i} one who falls prey (to an attack, deception, etc.); a person who is tricked or swindled; 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; (of crime); Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull; 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; 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; an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance; A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition; CRS 24-4 1-302(5), is any person against whom a crime has been perpetrated or attempted, unless there person is accountable for the crime or a crime arising from the same conduct, criminal episode or plan If such person is deceased, incapacitated, the person's spouse, parent, child, sibling, grandparent, significant other or other lawful representative is included in the definition Any victim under the age of 18 is considered incapacitated, unless legally emancipated; an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance a person who is tricked or swindled
Victim Precipitation: (Kanun) Victim precipitation is generally defined as behavior by the victim that initiates the subsequent behavior of the victimizer
victim of abuse: one who has been mistreated, one who is mistreated
victim of an attack: one who was assaulted, one who has been attacked
victim of circumstances: someone who was harmed by the existing circumstances
victim support: Victim support is the giving of help and advice to people who are victims of crime. When the attack took place, there were no victim support schemes
fashion victim: A person who slavishly follows current fashion
suicide victim: A person who has committed suicide
victim.: v
victimhood: The state or perception of being a victim
fall a victim to: become a victim of
fashion victim: disapproval A fashion victim is someone who thinks that being fashionable is more important than looking nice, and as a result often wears very fashionable clothes that do not suit them or that make them look silly. someone who always wears what is fashionable, even if it makes them look bad
innocent victim: guiltless victim, one who suffers a loss through no fault of his own
victimized: of persons; taken advantage of; "after going out of his way to help his friend get the job he felt not appreciated but used"
victims: a person or thing that has been attacked
victims: (n ) Any Jewish Israeli
victims: Plural of victim
victims: Individuals in predator relationships, who endure the terror of abuse, and those who have witnessed or who have been the target of violence Abuse can either be verbal or physical or both
victims: Any Jewish Israeli
was the victim of: fell prey to, was taken advantage of