victim

victim

noun

Definition of VICTIM

1

a person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed <helped the victims of the fire>

Synonyms fatality, loss, prey, victim

Related Words loser, underdog; martyr, sacrifice; collateral damage; murderee

Near Antonyms gainer, victor, winner; harmer, injurer; assassin, killer, murderer

2

a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule <the victim of schoolyard teasing>

Synonyms butt, mark, prey, sitting duck, victim

Related Words laughingstock, mockery, pilgarlic; lightning rod; fall guy, goat, scapegoat, whipping boy

Near Antonyms gossip, gossiper, talebearer, tattler, tattletale, troublemaker; defamer, libeler, libelist, traducer; baiter, heckler, needler, ribber, taunter, tease, teaser, tormentor (also tormenter), torturer; derider, insulter, mocker, ridiculer, scoffer, scorner; caricaturist, lampooner, parodist, satirist

3

something offered to a god <the Aztecs are believed to have sacrificed thousands of victims annually to the sun>

Synonyms immolation, offering, victim

Related Words libation, oblation, propitiation; holocaust; contribution, donation