Victim
['vɪktɪm]
Definition
(noun.) an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
(noun.) a person who is tricked or swindled.
Typist: Ted--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
Checker: Victoria
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sacrifice.[2]. [Colloquial.] Dupe, gull, cully, prey.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sufferer, prey, sacrifice, martyr, dupe, grill
ANT:Sacrificer, seducer
Typist: Preston
Definition
n. a living being offered as a sacrifice: some thing or person destroyed in the pursuit of an object: a person suffering injury: a dupe.—n. Victimīsā′tion.—v.t. Vic′timīse to make a victim of: to cheat.—n. Vic′timīser a swindler.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are the victim of any scheme, foretells that you will be oppressed and over-powered by your enemies. Your family relations will also be strained. To victimize others, denotes that you will amass wealth dishonorably and prefer illicit relations, to the sorrow of your companions.
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Examples
- For she was a victim. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His wooden conceit and craft kept exact pace with the delighted expectation of his victim. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- You know it is a capital crime, to mourn for, or sympathise with, a victim of the Guillotine. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- What though I was the victim of an extraordinary accident? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- All Jos's blood tingled with delight, as he surveyed this victim to his attractions. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Who began it, or how fair it was, or how unfair, may be doubtful; but how it ended is certainly not doubtful, for the victim was found throttled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I went, a willing old victim, following the car of the conqueror. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It is not pity that you feel; you lament only because the victim of your malignity is withdrawn from your power. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He wished to improve that which was already perfect--to draw the rope tighter yet round the neck of his unfortunate victim--and so he ruined all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, I will take your advice, sir, and go to the East in search of this lovely Helena of Melnos, but I promise you I will not be a victim. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- After a busy pause of ten minutes, her mother asked, Do you think yourself oppressed now--a victim? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He died September 14, 1898, at his country home in Citronelle, Alabama, a victim of tuberculosis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On receiving this the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might fly from the country. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She had to bear all the blame of his misdoings, and indeed was so utterly gentle and humble as to be made by nature for a victim. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The measure of our self-consciousness will more or less determine whether we are to be the victims or the masters of change. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Lily had never conceived of these victims of fate otherwise than in the mass. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Carthoris, Kantos Kan, Tars Tarkas, Hor Vastus, and Xodar might even now be the victims of Zat Arras' assassins, or else his prisoners. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The tale is that he who has tasted the entrails of a single human victim minced up with the entrails of other victims is destined to become a wolf. Plato. The Republic.
- For mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it. Plato. The Republic.
- The beasts tore the victims limb from limb and made poor mangled corpses of them in the twinkling of an eye. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Her former lover had been one of the first victims of the disease. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- We are all the victims of circumstances, and I the greatest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Animals are tied or tethered by it and led by it, and man, himself, is one of its victims. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Silent, humane, indispensable in hospital and prison, using his art equally among assassins and victims, he was a man apart. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The Holy Therns abide upon the outer slopes of these grim hills, facing the broad world from which they harvest their victims and their spoils. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His victims dare not hit back. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The balance of the frightful herd was now circling rapidly and with bewildering speed about the little knot of victims. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typist: Montague