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victim

Definition for victim

noun as in person who has suffered an injury

Weak match

injured party

noun as in dupe

noun as in person or animal sacrificed

Strong matches

martyr, scapegoat

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Example Sentences

Security video shows a struggle as the suspect pulls the victim out of her car and she fights him off with the help of a bystander before getting back into the vehicle.

Lucy's family say she was a victim of the system.

From BBC

In that respect, Cornyn was as much a victim of peaking at the wrong time as anything else.

From Slate

“Depravity does not adequately describe the callousness involved to kill a human being and then drive around in the victim’s own car with his body inside in order to carry out the rest of his plan,” O.C.

It was in October, when his parents received a letter in the post naming “Richard Rutherford Russell” as director of UCL Tickets Ltd, that Mr Russell realised he had been a victim of identity theft .

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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