Definition of victim

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Victim (n.) 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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Victimate :: Victimate (v. t.) To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate.
Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..
Victim :: Victim (n.) Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull..
Circean :: Circean (a.) Having the characteristics of Circe, daughter of Sol and Perseis, a mythological enchantress, who first charmed her victims and then changed them to the forms of beasts; pleasing, but noxious; as, a Circean draught..
Mactation :: Mactation (n.) The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
Hieroscopy :: Hieroscopy (n.) Divination by inspection of entrails of victims offered in sacrifice.
Pigeon :: Pigeon (n.) An unsuspected victim of sharpers; a gull.
Setter :: Setter (n.) One who hunts victims for sharpers.
Victimizing :: Victimizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Victimiz.
Immolate :: Immolate (v. t.) To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim..
Victimize :: Victimize (v. t.) To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat..
Lamb :: Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized..
Scaphism :: Scaphism (n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died..
Victim :: Victim (n.) 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..
Victim :: Victim (n.) A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident..
Aruspicy :: Aruspicy (n.) Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.
Aruspex :: Aruspex (n.) One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods..
Victimized :: Victimized (imp. & p. p.) of Victimiz.
Hecatomb :: Hecatomb (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims..
Prey :: Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim..
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