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victim

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Victim is a 1999 Hong Kong thriller film directed and co-written by Ringo Lam . The film stars Tony Leung Ka-fai , Lau Ching-wan and Amy Kwok and is about a computer programmer named Ma who is found in a haunted hotel by a cop. The programmer begins to ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a coma victim (= someone who is in a coma ) ▪ There are various techniques for helping coma victims to regain consciousness. a crash victim (= someone injured or killed in a crash ) ▪ Families of the crash victims want ...

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n. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance a person who is tricked or swindled [syn: dupe ]

Usage examples of victim.

First, to the will of those who slew Him: and in this respect He was not a victim: for the slayers of Christ are not accounted as offering a sacrifice to God, but as guilty of a great crime: a similitude of which was borne by the wicked sacrifices of the Gentiles, in which they offered up men to idols.

The dreadful pictures of the bodies of plague victims floating down the Thames and accumulating in the Pool of London, however, are now said to be exaggerated.

Now, from the tomb in which after his murders he rotted, Clement the Fifth howls against the successors of his victims, in the Allocution of Pio Nono against the Free-Masons.

A lovely female kidnap victim had had the bad luck to fall prey to a captor with a taste for anal rape and a cock like a club.

He was still speaking analytically, like a medically trained cancer victim describing his own terminal symptoms.

It is a more easy task to provoke the metaphysical disputes of the Greeks, to drive into the cloister the victims of anarchy or despotism, to sanctify the patience of slaves and cowards, or to assume the merit of the humanity and benevolence of modern Christians.

The probe showed that other mail containing faint traces of anthrax had been delivered to addresses near both victims, leading investigators to believe that cross-contaminated mail may have been delivered to the victims.

But, if the victims of Tiberius and Nero anticipated the decree of the prince or senate, their courage and despatch were recompensed by the applause of the public, the decent honors of burial, and the validity of their testaments.

It will be seen at once how such a congenital antipathy would tend to isolate the person who was its unfortunate victim.

When the clamor of the soldiers invested the reluctant victims with the ensigns of sovereign authority, they sometimes mourned in secret their approaching fate.

Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.

But time was indeed running out, and they needed the assessor alive and humiliated, rather than dead and a victim.

Within hours of each other there had been an admission from a car crash to set up on traction after Orthopaedics had finished patching him up and drips and analgesia to regulate in the sterile side ward for two young burns victims from a house fire.

The only difference between us and the Aztecs is one of method: we have anesthesia, we have antisepsis and asepsis, we use scalpels instead of obsidian blades to cut out the hearts of our victims.

Victims were indispensable but assuredly it was not Bonaparte who conceived the idea of hostages to answer for the men whom prudence kept absent.