victim

  • 21victim — n. 1 a person injured or killed as a result of an event or circumstance (a road victim; the victims of war). 2 a person or thing injured or destroyed in pursuit of an object or in gratification of a passion etc. (the victim of their ruthless… …

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  • 22Victim — La Victime (film) La Victime Titre original Victim Titre québécois Victime Réalisation Basil Dearden Acteurs principaux Dirk Bogarde Dennis Price Sylvia Syms Scénario Janet Green John McCormick Dialogues Janet Gre …

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  • 23victim*/*/*/ — [ˈvɪktɪm] noun [C] 1) someone who has been harmed or killed as the result of a crime a murder victim[/ex] victims of violence[/ex] 2) someone who has been affected by something such as an accident or illness flood/earthquake victims[/ex] She fell …

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  • 24victim — See martyr. See martyr, victim …

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  • 25victim — [15] Victim originally denoted a ‘person or animal killed as a sacrifice’; the more general notion of ‘someone who suffers from or is killed by something’ is a secondary development. The word was borrowed from Latin victima, which may be related… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 26victim — noun 1》 a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, etc.     ↘a person who has been tricked.     ↘a person who has come to feel helpless and passive in the face of misfortune. 2》 an animal or person killed as a religious …

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  • 27victim — auka statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Dėl biotinių tarprūšinių plėšrumo santykių žuvęs organizmas. atitikmenys: angl. victim vok. Opfer, f rus. жертва, f …

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  • 28victim — The person who is the object of a crime or tort, as the victim of a robbery is the person robbed. Person who court determines has suffered pecuniary damages as result of defendant s criminal activities; that person may be individual, public or… …

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  • 29victim — [15] Victim originally denoted a ‘person or animal killed as a sacrifice’; the more general notion of ‘someone who suffers from or is killed by something’ is a secondary development. The word was borrowed from Latin victima, which may be related… …

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  • 30Victim blaming — is holding the victims of a crime, an accident, or any type of abusive maltreatment to be entirely or partially responsible for the unfortunate incident that has occurred in their life, oftentimes when the victim had performed no actions to… …

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