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victim

noun

1 a victim of violent crime:

sufferer, injured party, casualty, injured person, wounded person;

dead person, fatality, loss;

loser.

▷antonyms attacker, assailant.

2 they intended me to be the victim of a confidence trick:

dupe, easy target, easy prey, fair game, sitting target, everybody's fool, stooge, gull, fool, Aunt Sally;

target, prey, quarry, object, subject, recipient, focus;

informal sitting duck, sucker, fall guy, pushover, soft touch, easy touch, chump, muggins, charlie;

North American, informal patsy, pigeon, sap, schlemiel, mark;

Australian, New Zealand, informal dill.

3 he offered himself as a sacrificial victim:

sacrifice, offering, burnt offering, scapegoat.

□ fall victim to

they had fallen victim to a flu epidemic:

fall ill with, be stricken with, become infected with, catch, develop, contract, pick up;

succumb to, be overcome by, be overwhelmed by;

informal come/go down with.

▷antonyms resist.

victim Oxford Dictionary of English