victim

n.

1. One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.
2. A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.
3. One who is harmed by or made to suffer from an act, circumstance, agency, or condition: victims of war.
4. A person who suffers injury, loss, or death as a result of a voluntary undertaking: You are a victim of your own scheming.
5. A person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of: the victim of a cruel hoax.

[Latin victima.]

victimhood vic'tim·hood' (-hʊd') n.

noun

1. One or more living creatures slain and offered to a deity as part of a religious rite: hecatomb, immolation, offering, sacrifice. See religion.
2. One that is made to suffer injury, loss, or death: casualty, prey. See help/harm/harmless.
3. A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt³, dupe, fool, gull, lamb, pushover. Informal sucker. Slang fall guy, gudgeon, mark, monkey, patsy, pigeon, sap¹. Chiefly British mug. See wise/foolish.

n

Definition: someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon
Antonyms: criminal, culprit

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IN BRIEF: Someone killed or hurt. Also: A person who is cheated or tricked.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein.

sign description: Both V hands begin at the top of the chest and move down in front of the body.

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Quotes:

"Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them." - Ben Elton

"Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!" - Thomas Hardy

"Don't agonize. Organize." - Florynce R. Kennedy

"Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt." - Susan Sontag

"When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or negligence, it is not only his sensibility that suffers but also his aspiration toward the good. Therefore there has been sacrilege towards that which is sacred in him." - Simone Weil

Being a victim in a dream or seeing another being victimized may denote a condition about which the dreamer feels helpless. Because the victim/rescuer theme is so widespread in life, dreams about victimization can also echo past experiences in which one felt victimized.

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Victim

Dansk (Danish)
n. - offer

idioms:

• fall victim to    blive offer for

Nederlands (Dutch)
slachtoffer, offer

Français (French)
n. - (lit, fig) victime

idioms:

• fall victim to    devenir la victime de, succomber à

Deutsch (German)
n. - Opfer

idioms:

• fall victim to    jmdm. od. etwas zum Opfer fallen

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - θύμα, κορόιδο

idioms:

• fall victim to    πέφτω θύμα, υποκύπτω, υποτάσσομαι

Italiano (Italian)
vittima

idioms:

• fall victim to    cader vittima di

Português (Portuguese)
n. - vítima (f)

idioms:

• easy victim    presa fácil
• fall victim to    ser vítima de

Русский (Russian)
жертва

idioms:

• easy victim    легко обманутый, легко притесненный
• fall victim to    пасть жертвой чего-л.

Español (Spanish)
n. - víctima, damnificado, interfecto

idioms:

• fall victim to    sucumbir ante, ser víctima de

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - offer

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
受害人, 牺牲品, 牺牲者

idioms:

• fall victim to    成为...的牺牲品, 被...降伏, 屈服于

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 受害人, 犧牲品, 犧牲者

idioms:

• fall victim to    成為...的犧牲品, 被...降伏, 屈服於

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 희생, 조난자, 이재민

idioms:

• fall victim to    ~의 희생이 되다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 犠牲, 被害者, 生け贄, 犠牲者

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) ضحيه, ذبيحه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮קורבן, פתי‬

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maradona victim or villain