Victim

Definition: Victim

Victim

Noun

1. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.

2. A person who is tricked or swindled.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "victim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Victim \Vic"tim\, noun. [Latin expression victima: compare to the French expression victime.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Victim

Dupe

Noun: dupe, gull, gudgeon, gobemouche, cull, cully, victim, pigeon, April fool; jay, sucker; laughingstock; Cyclops, simple Simon, flat; greenhorn; fool; puppet, cat's paw.

Failure

Victim; bankrupt; flunker, flunky.

Pain

Verb: feel pain, suffer pain, experience pain, undergo pain, bear pain, endure pain; Noun: smart, ache; (physical pain); suffer, bleed, ail; be the victim of.

Sufferer, victim, prey, martyr, object of compassion, wretch, shorn lamb.

Crosswords: Victim

I refuse to be a victim! (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

But you should know that sudden serious brain injury causes the victim to bite down hard (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders (The Princess Bride; writing credit: William Goldman)

Do you prefer fashion victim or ensemble-challenged (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling)

A crevice in which to cower, only scuttling from the shadows to devour a victim already ensnared in your cowardly trap (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

But I know I won't keep on playing the victim (Precious Illusions; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Playin, the victim now (Fighter; performing artist: CHRISTINA AGUILERA)

Goin' through public housin' systems, victim of Munchausen Syndrome (Cleanin' Out My Closet; performing artist: Eminem)

I've Been A Victim Of A Selfish (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard)

No victim, no crime (Don't Mean Nothing; performing artist: Richard Marx)

Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim (references; author: unknown)

When you forgive, it takes you from the place of the victim to that of a victor. (references; author: unknown)

The Victim (1974)

Her Victim (1966)

Victim Five (1964)

The Seventh Victim (1943)

A Victim of Deceit (1913)

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Books

• Find a Victim (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (reference)

• Next Victim (reference)

• The First Victim (reference)

• The Perfect Victim (reference)

• The Third Victim (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Crime Victim Compensation Quarterly (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• The 10th Victim (reference)

• Victim (reference)

• Victim of Love (reference)

• 10th Victim (reference)

• Victim of Desire (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Innocent Victim [UK Bonus Tracks] (reference)

• Pleasure Victim [EP] (reference)

• Victim of the Joke? (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau wields the trowel during the cornerstone laying for NCI's building 6 on June 24, 1939. Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land for the building, and Dr. Thomas Parron, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, look on. The PHS was then a part of the Treasury Department. See also ar000175. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

East end of Thatch Cay, U. S. Virgin Islands Old derelict, victim of storms past. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Jack Bond - victim of crocodile attack Huge agressive salt-water crocodiles were common in the southern Philippines At least one other Coast Surveyor was attacked by crocodile. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Volunteers hunt for discarded monofilament in the roots and branches of mangroves. A dead victim, a brown pelican floats in the water nearby. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A single Brown Pelican rests on the water in Tampa Bay. Brown Pelicans are one of the species that benefit from the monofilament clean-up that is organized yearly by Tampa Baywatch. Brown Pelicans and other birds fall victim to discarded monofilament fishing line when they roost on estuary islands. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Law Enforcement Ranger using his EMT skills on a victim in the Imperial Sand Dunes. Credit: Lori Cook.

[Male plague victim (close-up three-quarter length portrait, facing front) seated, arms crossed against his chest, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Male amputee plague victim (three-quarter length portrait, facing front) on crutches, hands upraised, San Francisco, Calif.]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

View looking eastward from over Pearl City, with Ford Island in the middle of the view and Diamond Head in the distant center, 1 August 1942. USS Long Island (CVE-1) and USS Hornet (CV-8) are moored along Ford Island's western side, protected by anti-torpedo nets. The capsized hull of USS Utah (AG-16), a victim of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid, is astern of Long Island. Credit: NAVY.

Between them they dragged their struggling victim to the door... Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was the face of a demon who had again found his victim.

He held both arms of his victim from behind

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Health

Joan was a victim of frequent migraine. (references)

Even without alcohol, a dose of Rohypnol as small as 1 mg can impair a victim for 8 to 12 hours. (references)

Coworkers or friends of the sleep apnea victim may notice that the individual falls asleep during the day at inappropriate times (such as while driving a car, working, or talking). (references)

Business

Therefore, a successful export program would become the victim of its own success. (references)

Presently, anybody driving a car or walking the streets could be a random carjacking (“secuestro al paso”) victim. (references)

Children

Malaysia

This poses special problems for molestation cases in which the child victim is the only witness. (references)

Pakistan

A 1996 survey conducted in Punjab showed that 40 percent of reported rape victims were minors, with the youngest victim in the study only 8 years old. (references)

Switzerland

In cases of severe sexual abuse, the statute takes effect only when the victim turns 18. Two cases of child abuse were reported widely during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Tunisia

Neither group believed that it was a victim of religious discrimination. (references)

Ukraine

According to the NGO Reporters without Borders, the police asserted that the event was an accident, but the victim asserted that it was motivated politically. (references)

Japan

They also claimed that police do not enforce the laws against kidnaping when the victim is held by family members, asserting that Unification Church members were subjected to prolonged arbitrary detention by individuals, who were not charged by police. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Kidnappers usually carry guns and drive the victim around to make withdrawals from ATM cash machines. (references)

Moldova

Moldova's location has made it a historic passageway between Asia and southern Europe as well as the victim of frequent warfare. (references)

Djibouti

As a victim of past international terrorist attacks, President Ismail Omar Guelleh took a very proactive position among Arab League members to support coalition efforts. (references)

Human Rights

Israel and the occupied territories

The mob attacked the victim after a bomb exploded in the area. (references)

Philippines

The autopsy reportedly showed that the victim had been tortured. (references)

Pakistan

Only the family of the victim, not the State, may pardon the defendant. (references)

Minorities

Argentina

In April Alberto Merenson, a retired musician and former director of the Symphonic Orchestra of San Juan Province, was the victim of a letter bomb. (references)

Liberia

By year's end, the Government had not yet released a report on the burning of five mosques in Lofa County in January 2000. Ritual killings, in which body parts used in traditional indigenous rituals are removed from the victim, continued to occur. (references)

Political Economy

CHILE

In the late 1990's, Chile's economy fell victim to global fallout from a series of financial crises in various emerging market countries. (references)

Travel

Latvia

It is not uncommon for groups of juvenile pickpockets to attempt to overwhelm their victim. (references)

Spain

The only American casualty due to terrorism in Spain was a chance victim of a bombing directed at others. (references)

Switzerland

A typical scam used against businessmen is for a thief to grab an attache case in a hotel or airport while an accomplice distracts the victim. (references)

Women

Tunisia

Instances of rape or assault by someone unknown to the victim are rare. (references)

Lithuania

If such violence takes place in the home, the victim must file a complaint. (references)

Jordan

Medical tests indicated that the victim had not engaged in sexual activity. (references)

Worker Rights

Bolivia

Heavier sentences are imposed if the victim is a minor. (references)

Romania

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provides documentation for victim repatriation. (references)

Romania

NGO's believe that many girls from these orphanages fall victim to trafficking networks. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Victim

Expressions using "victim": age of the victim ♦ aids victim ♦ be the victim of ♦ disaster victim ♦ earthquake victim ♦ fall victim ♦ flood victim ♦ murder victim ♦ murdered victim ♦ offer up a victim ♦ plague victim ♦ polio victim ♦ road victim ♦ shipwreck victim ♦ victim of persecution ♦ victim to. Additional references.

Beginning with "victim": victim-based, victim-blaming, victim-complaints, victim-focussed, victim-impact, victim-state, victim-support, victim-to-be.

Ending with "victim": bomb-victim, cancer-victim, child-victim, disaster-victim, fashion-victim, hamstring-victim, hero-victim, near-victim, subject-victim, teen-prostitute-victim.

Containing "victim": siren-victim-criminal.

Afrikaans

slagoffer. (various references)

Albanian

viktimë (casualty, dupe, prey, sufferer, underdog), pre (booty, chase, loot, prey, quarry, ravin, spoil, swag), fli (immolation, sacrifice). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فريسة (prey), ‏قتيل (murdered, slain), ‏ضحية (black sheep, fall guy, martyr, patsy, prey, sacrifice, sinister, sufferer). (various references)

Bulgarian 

жертва (casualty, fall guy, fool, immolation, mug, oblation, offering, patsy, prey, sacrifice), потърпевш (affected, claimant, sufferer). (various references)

Chinese 

被害人 , 受害者 (sufferer). (various references)

Czech

obìt vraždy (murder victim). (various references)

Danish

voldsramt (assault victim), ulykkesoffer (accident victim), offer for katastrofe (disaster victim), offer for høj bestråling (over-exposed accident victim), krigsoffer (victim of war). (various references)

Dutch

slachtoffer (casualty, victim of a disaster), getroffene (victim of a disaster), dupe (deceived one, deceived person). (various references)

Esperanto

viktimo. (various references)

Faeroese

offur. (various references)

Farsi 

هدف (Aim, Butt, Cause, Goal, Mark, Object, Parrot, Point, Prick, Purpose, Scope, Sight, Target), قربانی (Prey, Sacrifice), تلفات (Casualty), طعمه (Prey), شکار (Chase-Chace, Game, Hank, Hunt, Predatin, Prey, Quarry, Raven), دستخوش (Prey). (various references)

Finnish

uhrieläin (sacrificial animal), uhri (offering, prey, sacrifice). (various references)

French

victime. (various references)

German

Opfer (casualty, immolation, oblation, offering, prey, price, sacrifice, victims). (various references)

Greek 

θύμα (casualty, fatality, prey, victim of). (various references)

Hebrew 

קרבן (gift, offering, sacrifice, vow), נרצח (murdered). (various references)

Hungarian

áldozat (gambit, holocaust, oblation, prey, sacrifice). (various references)

Indonesian

penderita (accusative, object, sufferer), korban. (various references)

Italian

vittima (casualty, prey), sacrificio (oblation, offering, sacrifice). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

虜 (captive, prisoner, slave), 遭難者 (sufferer, survivor), 餌食 (prey), 食い物 (food, prey), 被害者 (injured party, sufferer), 犠牲者 , 人身御供 (human sacrifice), 殉難者 (martyr), 槍玉 , 俘 (captive, prisoner, slave). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぎせいしゃ, そうなんしゃ (sufferer, survivor), くいもの (food, prey), ひがいしゃ (injured party, sufferer), ひとみごくう (human sacrifice), ふ (affix, append, captive, generally, giving to, instructor, minus, music, negative, negative prefix, non, note, pawn, prisoner, refer to, score, slave, submitting to, tutor, un, widely), やりだま (make an example of, singled out), じゅんなんしゃ (martyr), とりこ (captive, prisoner, rice powder, slave), えじき (prey). (various references)

Korean 

피해자. (various references)

Malay

kurban, korban. (various references)

Manx

ourallagh (offering, offertory, sacrificial). (various references)

Norwegian

offer. (various references)

Papiamen

víktima. (various references)

Pig Latin

ictimvay.(various references)

Portuguese

vítima (bondservant, bondslave, prey, quarry, slave). (various references)

Romanian

victimã (casualty, holocaust, prey, sacrifice, spoil), pãgubaş (loser), jertfã (host, oblation, offering, prey, price, sacrifice). (various references)

Russian 

жертва (casualty, immolation, oblation, prey, sacrifice). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stradalnik, stradalac (sufferer), žrtva (casualty, offering, patsy, prey, sacrifice). (various references)

Spanish

víctima (casualty, fatality, prey, sport, sufferer, underdog). (various references)

Sranan

katibo (slave). (various references)

Swedish

slaktoffer, offer (immolation, offering, sacrifice, sacrificial, victims). (various references)

Turkish

mağdur kimse, kurban (fall guy, fatality, holocaust, martyr, oblation, offering, patsy, peace offering, prey, sacrifice, sacrificial, stiff, sufferer). (various references)

Ukrainian

жертва (immolation, oblation, offering, prey, sacrifice). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật bị hy sinh, người bị chết vì. (various references)

agonia, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, hostia, hostiae, hostiam, hostiarum, hostias, hostiis, victima, victimae, victimam, victimarum, victimas, victimis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "victim": victimhood, victimhoods, victimise, victimised, victimises, victimising, victimization, victimizations, victimize, victimized, victimizer, victimizers, victimizes, victimizing, victimless, victimologies, victimologist, victimologists, victimology, victims. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Victim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dictim, Vattimo, Vechten, vicim, vicit, vict, victam, victem, victom, victum, vincit, votim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: tic, vim.

-4 letters: it, mi, ti.

+1 letter: motivic, victims.

+2 letters: activism, viaticum.

+3 letters: activisms, impactive, viaticums, victimise, victimize, vorticism.

+4 letters: ivermectin, victimhood, victimised, victimises, victimized, victimizer, victimizes, victimless, vorticisms.

+5 letters: carminative, combinative, competitive, gravimetric, implicative, ivermectins, objectivism, vermiculite, victimhoods, victimising, victimizers, victimizing, victimology, viscometric.