VICTIM
\vˈɪktɪm], \vˈɪktɪm], \v_ˈɪ_k_t_ɪ_m]\
Definitions of VICTIM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
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A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
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Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
By Oddity Software
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A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
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A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
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Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
By Noah Webster.
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A living being sacrificed in a religious rite or ceremony; a person or thing destroyed or hurt by another in the pursuit of some object, or injured by some accident, disease, etc.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A living being offered as a sacrifice: some thing or person destroyed in the pursuit of an object: a person suffering injury.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Latin] A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite ;—a person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object or gratification of a passion;—a person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering, grievous injury;—one who is caught or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
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