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Synonyms for victims

Grammar : Noun
Spell : vik-tim
Phonetic Transcription : ˈvɪk tɪm

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Définition of victims

Origin :
  • late 15c., "living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power," from Latin victima "person or animal killed as a sacrifice." Perhaps distantly connected to Old English wig "idol," Gothic weihs "holy," German weihen "consecrate" (cf. Weihnachten "Christmas") on notion of "a consecrated animal." Sense of "person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by another" is first recorded 1650s; meaning "person oppressed by some power or situation" is from 1718. Weaker sense of "person taken advantage of" is recorded from 1781.
  • noun someone or something sacrificed, preyed upon
Example sentences :
  • Victims were sacrificed, and the omens declared not unpropitious.
  • Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
  • They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment.
  • Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
  • Bores who had travelled inflicted advice on victims who had not.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • I was in a hurry to leave the store, the home of these two victims of civilisation.
  • Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt
  • The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • I have heard you preach patience and courage to your victims.
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The captain himself was one of the victims to the "movement."
  • Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 » by Various
  • Many had already been the victims of his seducing arts; were they to blame?
  • Extract from : « Gomez Arias » by Joaqun Telesforo de Trueba y Coso
  • Rich or poor, each of the victims chosen by lot must meet his fate.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Stunned by the tragedy, none of the victims had made much of an outcry.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various

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