victimvic‧tim /ˈvɪktɪm/ ●●● S3 W2 noun [countable] 
The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.rape/murder etc victim Most homicide victims are under 30.victim of victims of crime a credit card fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims2someone who suffers because of something bad that happens or because of an illnessvictim of victims of age discrimination He was the victim of an administrative error. a massive aid programme for the famine victims AIDS victims and other patients who are terminally ill All these people are innocent victims. He was used to being in charge, not being the victim of circumstance. Saying that the unemployed ‘don’t want to work’ is a classic case of blaming the victim.3 fall victim to somebody/something written a)to be attacked, killed etc by someone, or to get a particular illness, especially one that kills: One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits. b)to be badly affected or destroyed by a situation: Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.4be/become a victim of its own success to be badly affected by some unexpected results of being very successful: There are now so many tourists that the area has become a victim of its own success.5sacrificial victim a person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (=gift) to a god6fashion/style victim someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes even if they do not look good in themCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + victima flood/earthquake/cyclone etc victim· Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city's parks.a famine victim (=someone who has had no food to eat for a long time)· Aid is being shipped to famine victims.a cancer/AIDS etc victim· He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.an accident/crash victim· The crash victims were rushed to hospital.an innocent victim· Children are the innocent victims of war.an unfortunate victim· If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.victim + NOUNa victim mentality (=when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim)· Many of us fall into a victim mentality, and blame all our troubles on other people.phrasesa victim of circumstance (=someone who suffers because of something they cannot control)· She was a victim of circumstance, as she was born at a time when women had no power.verbsblame the victim (=to say that someone is responsible for their own bad situation)· It is blaming the victim to ask the woman what she does that makes her husband lose his temper and hit her.portray somebody as a victim (=to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation)· She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.
WORD ORIGINvictim
Origin:
1400-1500 Latin victima ‘person or animal killed as a religious offering’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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.
Longman Language Activatora person or place that is attacked
someone who has been attacked: · In most sexual offences, the attacker is known to the victim.· The victim was shaken, but physically unharmed.murder/rape/torture etc victim: · The program was grossly insensitive to Holocaust victims.· One of the bombing victims was dead on arrival in hospital.victim of: · She had been the victim of a particularly vicious attack.· victims of domestic abuse
a person or place that someone, especially a military group, has chosen to attack: · The bomb missed its target by several kilometres.military/civilian target: · The GIA continued its attacks on civilian targets.target zone/area: · When the plane gets to the target area, it drops the missile and returns to base.target of: · The Institution has been the target of terrorist attack several times.· The commonly used roads are the targets of heavy fire.prime target (=very obvious and probable target): · Holding a US passport makes these tourists a prime target for terrorists.
if an army or place is under attack , it is being attacked: · The rebels are under attack and may surrender at any time.be under attack from: · At first, he thought the Pacific Fleet was under attack from German forces.come under attack (=begin to be attacked): · We were united by a sense of national pride when our country came under attack.
someone who suffers someone who suffers because of an illness, accident, crime etc: · a murder victim· Heart attack victims stand a better chance if they are treated immediately.· They are launching a massive aid program to help the famine victims.victim of: · Our aim is to help victims of crime.
someone who suffers as a result of an event or situation over which they have no control - used especially in news reports: · The corruption scandal has claimed yet another casualty: the Finance Minister, who was forced to resign last night.casualty of: · The company is the latest casualty of the worldwide recession.
WORD SETSalarmed, adjectiveallegation, nounamnesty, nounbail, nounbreath test, nouncharge sheet, nouncircumstantial, adjectivecompensation, nouncompensatory, adjectivecomplicity, nouncondemned, adjectivecondemned cell, nounconfess, verbconfession, nounconman, nouncontraband, nouncuff, verbdebug, verbdetain, verbdick, nounenforce, verbfed, nounFederal Bureau of Investigation, nounflogging, nounforensic, adjectivegallows, noungaolbird, noungas chamber, noungibbet, nounguillotine, nounhang, verbhanging, nounhard labour, nounimpeach, verbKC, nounlaunder, verblawsuit, nounleg irons, nounlicensed, adjectivelicensing laws, nounlife, nounlife sentence, nounline-up, nounlynch, verblynch mob, nounpenalty point, nounpenology, nounpolygraph, nounposse, nounprisoner, nounracket, nounracketeer, nounracketeering, nounrake-off, nounransom, nounransom, verbreport, verbreprieve, nounriot, nounshop, verbsilk, nounspeed trap, nounstalker, nounstrip search, nountransport, verbtransportation, nountribunal, nounundercover, adjectivevictim, nounwrongdoing, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + victim a rape victim
· Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city's parks.
(=someone who has had no food to eat for a long time)· Aid is being shipped to famine victims.
· He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.
· The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
· Children are the innocent victims of war.
· If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.
victim + NOUN (=when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim)· Many of us fall into a victim mentality, and blame all our troubles on other people.
phrases (=someone who suffers because of something they cannot control)· She was a victim of circumstance, as she was born at a time when women had no power.
verbs (=to say that someone is responsible for their own bad situation)· It is blaming the victim to ask the woman what she does that makes her husband lose his temper and hit her.
(=to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation)· She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· One of the accident victims is still trapped in his vehicle.
· She was the victim of an attack in her own home.
(=someone who is in a coma)· There are various techniques for helping coma victims to regain consciousness.
(=someone injured or killed in a crash)· Families of the crash victims want to know what happened.
· Victims of crime do not always report the offence.
(=someone who is suffering because of a disaster)· Aid is being given to the disaster victims.
(=someone who has experienced discrimination)· Victims of discrimination have the right to make a complaint.
(=someone who has been murdered)· The family of the murder victim pleaded for information to find the killer.
· He was the victim of a plot by his political opponents.
a rape victim· Some stroke victims recover fully.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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.
· 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 THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► don’t come the innocent/victim/helpless male etc with me► innocent victims/bystanders/people etc
1someone who has been attacked, robbed, or murdered: - Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.
- Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
- I don't want to be a fashion victim.
- It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
- Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.
- Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
- There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
- And dying for a drink.The badger falls victim to the drought.
- Bill Vaughan, returned the favor last year after the Baptist church fell victim to arson.
- Don't allow yourself to fall victim to self-fulfilling prophecy.
- Even Jim Harrick fell victim to the mood.
- For one thing, government economic statistics have fallen victim to the fiscal paralysis in Washington.
- Many of you who do use your talents and prosper in the business may fall victim to its pressures.
- Not one has ever fallen victim to a gangland-style hit after coming forward with solid information.
- Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
- The helpline is a victim of its own success with so many people calling that no one can get through.
- Moreover, to a great extent the health service is a victim of its own success.
- And at their feet, a white-clad sacrificial victim, was the body.
- And the sacrificial victim is yourself.
- He had to shift the blame, find a sacrificial victim.
- In most cases, however, the imam was a sort of sacrificial victim.
- Is she perhaps a sacrificial victim?
- Now he is Yahweh's sacrificial victim.
- They were in the middle of a hideous ritual, and they were the sacrificial victims.
- Yet again, housing is the main sacrificial victim.
- 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.
- 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?
The victim received head injuries from which she died a week later.rape/murder etc victim Most homicide victims are under 30.victim of victims of crime a credit card fraud ring that stole millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims2someone who suffers because of something bad that happens or because of an illnessvictim of victims of age discrimination He was the victim of an administrative error. a massive aid programme for the famine victims AIDS victims and other patients who are terminally ill All these people are innocent victims. He was used to being in charge, not being the victim of circumstance. Saying that the unemployed ‘don’t want to work’ is a classic case of blaming the victim.3 fall victim to somebody/something written a)to be attacked, killed etc by someone, or to get a particular illness, especially one that kills: One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits. b)to be badly affected or destroyed by a situation: Many small businesses have fallen victim to the recession.4be/become a victim of its own success to be badly affected by some unexpected results of being very successful: There are now so many tourists that the area has become a victim of its own success.5sacrificial victim a person or animal that is killed and offered as a sacrifice (=gift) to a god6fashion/style victim someone who always wears the most fashionable clothes even if they do not look good in themCOLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2ADJECTIVES/NOUN + victima flood/earthquake/cyclone etc victim· Earthquake victims were living in tents in the city's parks.a famine victim (=someone who has had no food to eat for a long time)· Aid is being shipped to famine victims.a cancer/AIDS etc victim· He helped raise £2,000 for a dying cancer victim.an accident/crash victim· The crash victims were rushed to hospital.an innocent victim· Children are the innocent victims of war.an unfortunate victim· If you are the unfortunate victim of a tragic accident, this card will tell doctors that you are willing to donate your organs.victim + NOUNa victim mentality (=when someone always thinks of themselves as a victim)· Many of us fall into a victim mentality, and blame all our troubles on other people.phrasesa victim of circumstance (=someone who suffers because of something they cannot control)· She was a victim of circumstance, as she was born at a time when women had no power.verbsblame the victim (=to say that someone is responsible for their own bad situation)· It is blaming the victim to ask the woman what she does that makes her husband lose his temper and hit her.portray somebody as a victim (=to write or talk about someone as though they are not responsible for their bad situation)· She was portrayed as the victim of a loveless marriage.