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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
victim
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 to know what happened.
a disaster victim (=someone who is suffering because of a disaster)
▪ Aid is being given to the disaster victims.
a murder victim (=someone who has been murdered)
▪ The family of the murder victim pleaded for information to find the killer.
a stroke patient/victim
▪ Some stroke victims recover fully.
a victim of crime
▪ Victims of crime do not always report the offence.
a victim of discrimination (=someone who has experienced discrimination)
▪ Victims of discrimination have the right to make a complaint.
an accident victim
▪ One of the accident victims is still trapped in his vehicle.
fashion victim
rape victim
▪ a rape victim
the victim of a plot
▪ He was the victim of a plot by his political opponents.
the victim of an attack
▪ She was the victim of an attack in her own home.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
innocent
▪ The crawling and wriggling carcasses had been the innocent victims of the chaos taking possession of their world.
▪ I can not see her as an innocent victim of a nasty and dissolute hippie.
▪ She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now.
▪ Do not assume they are necessarily innocent victims.
▪ He is believed to be an innocent victim of a clean-up campaign which included the demolition of buildings.
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ Murderers, rapists and muggers are innocent victims of society, their parents and traumatic early experience.
▪ For Lisa to cast herself as an innocent victim was maddening enough.
intended
▪ What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
▪ Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
▪ Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
▪ Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims.
▪ Could his intended victim have somehow guessed, from an unguarded look perhaps, that he had been marked for death?
▪ However, seeing their intended victim was not present, they changed the name on their warrant and arrested Mr. Seddon instead!
▪ The Fat Controller was sitting Ciceronian amongst the mob, and his intended victim was squeaking with the rest.
▪ This cowardly and servile Nizan-Pluvinage was ready to lick the dust to deceive the intended victims of his spying.
late
▪ Immigrant workers, easy scapegoats for the newly reunited country's economic ills, have been the latest victims of bigoted violence.
▪ A 6-year-old and two adults were the epidemic's latest victims, authorities said.
▪ He was the latest victim of a series of killings of prominent people in the capital.
▪ The investments of later victims were used to pay off earlier victims.
▪ Among the latest victims, are Paul and Jean Williams.
▪ The latest victim was a 44-year-old woman on holiday with her boyfriend at a caravan park south of Durban.
▪ Today's card at Sandown and tomorrow's at Towcester became the latest victims.
sacrificial
▪ And the sacrificial victim is yourself.
▪ He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim.
▪ And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim, was the body.
▪ In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim.
▪ Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim.
▪ They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims.
▪ Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim?
▪ Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ He had seen similar symptoms before on road accident victims.
▪ At Advanced Tissue, research has focused on replacement parts for accident victims or other patients.
▪ It's a message echoed by doctors and accident victims alike, as Kim Barnes reports.
▪ The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.
▪ Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
▪ Outside, a small but determined lobby of supporters, including the first accident victim to be saved by the air ambulance.
▪ It features actress Denise Douglas, 18, as a hideously injured road accident victim.
▪ The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days.
cancer
▪ Margarita Georgiou brought her wedding day forward after cancer victim Nick was told by doctors he didn't have long to live.
▪ Among the seven brave children was blind cancer victim Nicholas Killen.
▪ But the cancer victim insisted he was well treated.
▪ Ronald Joyce recalls Lenny helping raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.
▪ Five-year-old cancer victim Belinda Giles was rushed in by her parents, Gill and Paul, when her temperature soared.
▪ Charles showed great loyalty to his cancer victim wife Jill Ireland and deserves a new start.
child
▪ Dickensian child victims grow into upright citizens if they grow up at all.
▪ Despite the dangers the first crew want to return ... this time to help the child victims of the conflict.
▪ Certainly the child victims are not those whose reputations the newspapers would wish to question or challenge.
crash
▪ When faith can cost a life: the car crash victim who refused to be given blood.
▪ Local hospitals were taken off the alert for crash victims.
▪ A CRASH victim had his head held above icy water by rescuers after his car plunged into a marsh.
▪ Tom Berenger is an amnesia-suffering crash victim who suspects he has murdered some one in the stylish thriller Shattered.
crime
▪ At a ceremony at the Capitol to honor crime victims, Gov.
▪ Officials were required to obtain such a statement under a federal program for crime victims.
flood
▪ The International Red Cross has appealed for $ 3.8m to assist 200,000 of the most vulnerable flood victims.
▪ Emerado's crews also had a shelter ready for flood victims and helped the local Red Cross fulfill its mission.
▪ A team of 45 doctors and nurses were flown into the region by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to treat flood victims.
▪ Tell that to the flood victims of 1884.
▪ A presidential declaration would trigger federal aid dollars for flood victims.
▪ Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad invited comments and questions from flood victims.
murder
▪ Anti-racist campaigners say Ashiq was the sixth racist murder victim this year.
▪ And the motion by Councillor Jack Newell went further ... also demanding protection for the families of murder victims.
rape
▪ Lawyers do not believe that women jurors are necessarily more likely than men to believe the evidence of alleged rape victims.
▪ Also patron of nurses and rape victims.
▪ The emphasis of the research mainly focused on the press reporting of the rape victim.
▪ Some rape victims might be lucky enough to encounter an emergency room doctor who will prescribe the drugs.
▪ Genuine rape victims should always be encouraged to come forward, so anonymity is important.
▪ They serenaded the rape victim inside, cheering a brother on as if it were a football game.
▪ After the furore over the schoolgirl rape victim, he risks having a controversial but respectable viewpoint mistaken for insensitivity.
▪ She also works with other rape victims, which is helping to lay her own demons to rest.
■ VERB
allege
▪ His defence was that of self-defence; he alleged that the victim had attacked him first.
▪ The Archdiocese of Los Angeles put Llanos on leave in 1994, after the first alleged victim demanded action.
▪ The alleged victim failed to appear in court, and now the case is on appeal in a federal court.
▪ Even the rape case against him began falling apart when his alleged victim failed to appear in court.
become
▪ Yesterday Silvino Francisco became his victim for the second time.
▪ From a human relations point of view, Janet had outsmarted Hazel by refusing to become a victim over a trivial matter.
▪ Of course, when the time came, Doyle became a victim of an attitude which he had helped to foster.
▪ The doctors had also become victims.
▪ I became the victim in what was a wholly unbalanced relationship.
▪ A child under ten had only three chances in a thousand of becoming the victim of a severe attack of polio.
▪ Last night a spokeswoman for the Arts Centre said the festival has become a victim of its own success.
▪ She, too, becomes a victim.
blame
▪ The Employment Training Scheme is a classic example of blaming the victim.
▪ But this conclusion blames the victim.
▪ What is wrong is the tendency to generalise negative attitudes and to blame the victim.
▪ When counselors, pastors and the church blame the victim, they unwittingly become part of the problem.
▪ This is more than blaming the victim, it involves making the victim part of the problem.
▪ When does encouraging women to be appropriately cautious amount to blaming the victim?
▪ There are a range of behaviours and relationships which provide a variety of ways of blaming the victim.
▪ They do not blame the victims.
claim
▪ Physical abuse at home, especially wife beating, claims a victim every fifteen seconds.
▪ They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters.
▪ None the less, ignorance and poverty continue to claim victims, particularly malnourished slum children, who are the most susceptible.
▪ In an average year, about 35 babies suffer rubella damage, but an epidemic will normally claim about 70 victims.
▪ Fun Fortnight had claimed another victim and I was forced to be game for a laugh and work in a joke shop.
▪ However, fellow evangelical pilgrims claimed they were victims of religious persecution.
fall
▪ In June 1183, the Young King fell victim to a sudden attack of dysentery and died a few days later.
▪ For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
▪ Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.
▪ Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.
▪ Eventually, however, Taylor Walker fell victim of Ind Coope in 1959, closing two years later.
▪ In his failure to take these differences into account, Leibniz fell victim to his reliance on secondary sources.
▪ Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
▪ Some prisoners who would not normally have received the death sentence may have fallen victim to political interference in the judicial process.
help
▪ Is it not your duty to do something about it, to help such victims?
▪ The U.S. government has pledged about $ 9 million to help the victims.
▪ Stop the suffering ... two million pounds to help victims of domestic violence.
▪ She wants to work full-time helping rape victims.
▪ Despite the dangers the first crew want to return ... this time to help the child victims of the conflict.
▪ Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
▪ Later Caroline specialised in Special Needs classes and introduced the first class to help stroke victims.
▪ The movement's struggle with authorities to help the victims of post-traumatic stress disorder and Agent Orange had undeniable significance.
kill
▪ Generally a mild or even invisible infection in the young, the disease mysteriously often cripples or kills older victims.
▪ Larkin, above: brandishing an open razor, intending to frighten the victim's man and inadvertently killing the victim.
▪ Nor is it clear what killed those victims.
▪ When children kill they typically target victims smaller and more defenseless than themselves.
▪ With amateurs there's no point in paying, they're likely to kill the victim off anyway, out of fear.
▪ It kills its victims with venomous fangs.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
don't come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me
fall victim/prey to sth/sb
▪ A number of woodcutters and honey-hunters have fallen victim to Sunderbans tigers.
▪ All these animals, and others, had fallen prey to the apprentice hunters.
▪ But he suddenly fell victim to his own pride and courage.
▪ Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.
▪ It really seems as if some drivers fall prey to a death wish when freezing fog descends.
▪ Surely Cynthia didn't fall victim to the same fear?
▪ This way, Tucson can avoid falling prey to wildcat subdivisions on its fringes.
▪ You have to assume that Mobs will occasionally fall prey to animosity come what may.
innocent victims/bystanders/people etc
intended target/victim/destination etc
▪ After they failed to find their intended victim, they embarked on an indiscriminate anti-foreigner rampage.
▪ Eloise was capable of what almost amounted to mesmerism, so thoroughly did she take in her intended victims.
▪ It can not move and shoot in the same turn, except that it can be turned to face its intended target.
▪ Recovering his balance with uncanny speed, he snarled and launched himself after the still tumbling figure of his intended victim.
▪ Satisfied his intended victim was asleep, he gripped the door handle and turned it slowly.
▪ Was the call-girl the intended victim?
▪ We are near our intended target and head directly there with a vector supplied from above, but we find nothing.
▪ What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ victims of domestic abuse
▪ a victim of circumstance
▪ a murder victim
▪ Heart attack victims stand a better chance if they are treated immediately.
▪ In most sexual offences, the attacker is known to the victim.
▪ It is all too common to blame the victim in rape cases.
▪ One of the bombing victims was dead on arrival in hospital.
▪ Our aim is to help victims of crime.
▪ She had been the victim of a particularly vicious attack.
▪ The victim was shaken, but physically unharmed.
▪ The program was grossly insensitive to Holocaust victims.
▪ They are launching a massive aid program to help the famine victims.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the first victims were not black, as you might surmise, but white men.
▪ Children, too, are the main victims of landmines.
▪ He was ordered to compensate all of the victims of the fire and pay a heavy fine.
▪ If the person's heart was heavy with misdeeds, the Devourer would consume the victim and they would never find peace.
▪ Is that what you meant by killers and victims?
▪ The victim still had a small piece of metal from the van in his leg, he added.
▪ We maintain the hope that Gil will be the last victim.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Victim

Victim \Vic"tim\, n. [L. victima: cf. F. victime.]

  1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

    Led like a victim, to my death I'll go.
    --Dryden.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
victim

late 15c., "living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power," from Latin victima "person or animal killed as a sacrifice." Perhaps distantly connected to Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate" (compare Weihnachten "Christmas") on notion of "a consecrated animal." Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is recorded from 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power or situation" is from 1718. Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of" is recorded from 1781.

Wiktionary
victim

n. 1 (qualifier: 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. 2 Anyone who is harmed by another.

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WordNet
victim

  1. n. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

  2. a person who is tricked or swindled [syn: dupe]

Wikipedia
Victim (1961 film)

Victim is a 1961 British suspense film directed by Basil Dearden, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. It was the first English language film to use the word "homosexual". It premiered in the UK on 31 August 1961 and in the US the following February. On its release in the United Kingdom it proved highly controversial to the British Board of Film Censors, and in the U.S. it was refused a seal of approval from the American Motion Picture Production Code.

Victim

Victim or Victims may refer to:

Victim (Eighteen Visions song)

"Victim" was the second single from Eighteen Visions self-titled album. The song was featured as the theme song to WWE Vengeance, and has had much airplay on the radio stations. The CD was not released as a single, but rather as a promo, for radio, and collectors.

Victim (1999 film)

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 terrify his girlfriend Amy Fu, which leads the cops to think that Ma is covering up some larger crime.

On its release in Hong Kong theatres, Victim's ending was changed for 50% of the film prints due to an argument between Ringo Lam and producer Joe Ma. It was nominated for several year-end awards in Asia and was included as a Film of Merit by the 6th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.

Victim (2011 film)

Victim is a 2011 British urban action drama film directed by Alex Pillai, written by Ashley Chin and Michael Maris, stars Ashley Chin, Ashley Madekwe, Jason Maza, and co-stars Adam Deacon, David Harewood and Giggs. The film is about a young man's attempts to move away from a life of violent crime, with the help of a wholesome country girl who comes to stay with his friend in the city, only to find himself the target of retaliation.

Victim (album)

Victim is the first demo release by Gojira (then Godzilla). It was released in 1996.

Victim (Sevi song)

Victim is a song of the Bulgarian rock band Sevi, which became the third single to their debut album What Lies Beyond. The song was created in the summer of 2011 and later recorded as a single of the band. The featured video of the song was shot during the national tour of Sevi – the What Lies Beyond Tour and officially released on November 30, 2012. The arrangement and the lyrics of the song launched the track in the rock charts right after the promotion of the video. It almost immediately reached fifth position in Kamenitza Rock 40 for a couple of weeks, as well as number 1 for a week.

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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.