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victim

A victim is the person hurt in a crime. The family of the murder victim cried.

victim

an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance a person who is tricked or swindled

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Simple sentences

Sami is not a victim. He's a survivor.
Tom wasn't the only victim of that accident.
Young men are apt to fall a victim to their own avarice.
He fell a victim to a deadly disease.
He fell a victim to his own ambition.
The shooting victim is alive, but just barely.
The burglar pointed his gun at the victim.
Tom is the victim of a terrible crime.
The firefighter helped the car-accident victim.
Seeing the face of his wife covered in green spots, he had a heart attack. Yet another victim of the killer cucumber!
I trust what Matthew, Mark, Luke and John said, and if I were ever the victim in a car accident I'd be very happy if they were my witnesses.
The cops like the victim's boyfriend for the murder.
The police thought the victim was Tom, but they were unable to identify the body.
The victim was crippled by dogs.
It's possible that the victim is wounded in the head.
I've discovered the victim's identity.
The victim is thought to have taken a large quantity of poison by mistake.
Being in critical condition the victim has been rushed to the hospital.
Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.
The US judicial system and press are incredible: One day you're a poor examplary housewife, victim of a rape, the next, you're an illegal immigrant, having committed perjury and being suspected of whitewashing drug money.
She is not the victim.
If you only listen to the testimony of the victim you can't understand the full story of the incident.
The victim had been beaten up and left for dead.
Tom was the victim of an extortion attempt.
She was the victim of domestic violence.

Movie subtitles

I tried an emergency spinal corpectomy on a 15-year-old car crash victim.
When everyone returns we each draw three cards that decide the weapon, the room in which the murder is to take place and the victim.
At which point the victim assumes the position.
Initially, of course, we all thought Scarlett was the victim.
Clearly, the victim is Scarlett.
Senior, Kylie from Victim Support and Hayley Whitestone are here.
Plus, he has a break-in where nothing was stolen except for a cut-throat razor with the victim's blood on it.
You're a victim of the people of Clarkesville.
So the dog was the intended victim.
But one of these skaters may have threatened our victim's life.
Our victim's daughter.
Perhaps then, sir, the answer lies with the victim's loved ones.
The victim knew what they were up to.
Lauren's latest victim?
I know that it's not your fault. You're a victim of the people of Clarkesville.
That night, you had a violent argument with the victim.
The weapon had been thrown at the victim with the same precision and accuracy as in your act.
Although gravely wounded by the knife that had pierced her, the victim tried to defend herself with a small revolver.
Why did you arm yourself with a knife before going to the victim's dressing room?
No. Yet, you threatened the victim with it during your interaction.
You've admitted you threatened the victim, but only with words.
The doctor has just described in detail how he believes the victim was struck with a large knife from 2 meters away.
Mr. Barreau, you testified earlier that as cashier at the Folies Montmartre, on the night of the crime, you brought the victim 20,000 f.
Ms. Delange, when you entered the victim's dressing room, did you see the money the cashier had given her?
Mr. Barreau. At the dress rehearsal, which involved a number of people, some of whom may have questionable characters, did anyone see you bring the money to the victim?
When the victim called you to send the cashier, what time was it?
If you're innocent, as you claim, in spite of being seen near the victim's dressing room and clearly being sought after, why didn't you go to the authorities on your own?
So, the victim kept 15,000 f?
This gentlemen is a victim of a visit to the Queen Ma.
And if anyone has a right to his liquor, it's a victim of circumstance. - Isn't that so, Count?
I was a victim of circumstance.
It's obvious, as you say, that you were a victim of circumstance.
A month unfortunately. Professor Topaze. Our talk has convinced me that you have been a victim of excessive mother-love.
I'm just a victim of fate.
I am the victim of a designing woman myself.
I've been the victim of your unbridled imagination once more.
As for you, my fine friend, you're a victim of disorganized thinking.
At a feast by lottery the victim was chosen.
Miss Novak, although I'm the victim of your remark I can't help but admire the exquisite way you have of expressing yourself.
The police need a victim, somebody they can pin those three murders on.

News and current affairs

Gates, deeply conscious, indeed a specialist of the terrible history of race relations in his country, instinctively assumed that he was a victim of prejudice.
Afghanistan can thus rightly be seen as the first victim of the administration's misguided strategy.
Likewise, movie stars often fall victim to alcohol, drugs, and breakdowns, but at least they have chosen the lives they live.
Rather than learn from this fiasco, Klaus went on the offensive, claiming that he was a victim of a conspiracy hatched by Havel.
Ferguson's argument amounts to that of a brutal disciplinarian who claims vindication for his methods by pointing out that the victim is still alive.
One common justification for legalization or decriminalization of cannabis centers around the idea that it does not involve a victim.
The role of victim is all too familiar to the Chinese, perhaps even somewhat comforting, for it provides a way to explain (and explain away) China's problems.
The chief victim of their land-grab was Bosnia, which they divided and ravaged through various proxies.
This ideology feeds a deep popular perception of China as a wounded, humiliated third-world victim and instills in the ruling Communist Party a powerful sense of unresolved grievance.
Biomass energy, however, is the victim of unfair competition from fossil fuels.
Iran believes that it is the victim of an international double standard - acceptance of Pakistan's and India's nuclear status, not to mention Israel's - which only fuels its sense of discrimination and its resolve to pursue its ambitions.
An important victim will be Japan, where anemic real income growth is depressing domestic demand and exports to China sustain what little growth there is.
Both sides of the conflict - the government of Sudan and its allied forces, as well as all the opposition groups in Darfur - must understand that civilians should no longer fall victim to their political disputes.
But Europe is not a victim.
It remains a sobering lesson, one that presents the media in the role of aggressor and violator, in contrast to their normal position as victim.
Indeed, Djindjic may well be a victim of his recent moves to root out organized crime.
His friend, a young Iraqi actress named Zahra Zubaidi, had to flee the Middle East after having played a rape victim in the Brian de Palma film Redacted; she has since emigrated to New York.
Following years of mismanagement and reckless lending, the bank was the first big victim of the commercial property market's decline in 1990.
The diplomatic protocols awaiting ratification by the two countries' parliaments have fallen victim to miscalculations on both sides.
Furthermore, past industrial projects that fell victim to the hostilities should be revived and made more legitimate in the eyes of Hamas through the participation of the Arab state.
Now Google itself has become a victim of China's growing cyber prowess, in the same way that appeasement of Hitler boomeranged onto France and Britain.
France's role would be to ensure that the weaker countries don't fall victim to enduring deflation.
At stake is not only assistance, but Pakistan's own future, for, in the absence of genuine commitment to counter-terrorism, it is only a matter of time before the country falls victim to the infection that it refuses to treat.
Or they come from countries in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia and have fallen victim to human trafficking, lured by decent job offers or simply sold by their parents.

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