- a person who suffers from a destructive or injurious action or agency: A passing motorist offered assistance to the victims of a car accident.Victims of workplace abuse are encouraged to speak out.
- a person who is deceived or cheated, as by their own emotions or ignorance, by the dishonesty of others, or by some impersonal agency: I had fully expected the flight to arrive on time, but I was the victim of misplaced confidence.The swindler’s victims report losing thousands of dollars in the scheme.
- a person or animal sacrificed or regarded as sacrificed: war victims.
- a living creature sacrificed in religious rites.
- a person or thing that suffers harm, death, etc, from another or from some adverse act, circumstance, etc
- a person who is tricked or swindled; dupe
- a living person or animal sacrificed in a religious rite
