Usually means: Individual harmed by another's actions.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. victim: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. victim: Merriam-Webster
  3. victim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. victim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. victim: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Victim, victim, victim: Wordnik
  7. victim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. victim: Wiktionary
  9. victim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. victim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. victim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. victim: Dictionary.com
  13. victim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. victim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Victim (novel), Victim (Eighteen Visions song), Victim (Kate DeAraugo song), Victim (Sevi song), Victim (album), Victim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Victim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. victim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. victim: Rhymezone
  19. victim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. victim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. victim: FreeDictionary.org
  22. victim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. victim: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. victim: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. victim: Vocabulary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. victim-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Victim, Victim (Single), Victim (song), victim: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. VICTIM: Vocabulary of Loss: Suicide, Grief, and Ethics
  2. The Victim, Victim (Single), Victim (song), victim: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. victim: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. victim: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See victimhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:
noun:  One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.
noun:  One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.
noun:  One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
noun:  One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.
noun:  A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
noun:  (by extension, Christianity) The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
verb:  (transitive, rare, now nonstandard) To make (something) a victim (especially of a ritual sacrifice); to victimize.

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