VICTIM Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

victim

noun

ˈvik-təm

Definition of victim

as in fatality

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

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as in target

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

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as in sacrifice

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

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Recent Examples of victim Prosecutors seeking to convict the Texas man charged with killing flight attendant Rana Nofal Soluri and throwing her body off a bridge have a powerful new piece of evidence — the victim’s body. — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2026 Multiple witnesses told police the victim was upset for not being able to use the Pizza Hut bathroom, and was unable to hear a restaurant employee, records show. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 Oct. 2026 After being acquitted on a technicality, the former leader encounters the ghosts of Mayan genocide victims as protests break out throughout the country in response to the verdict. — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026 The victim's website could keep working normally while the AI account behind part of it quietly chews through its available balance. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for victim

Recent Examples of Synonyms for victim

Noun

In addition to the two fatalities, several people were injured that day.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026
The four are the only fatalities whose identities have been confirmed so far.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of fatality

Noun

This is despite the City of London’s socio-economic diversity taskforce setting a target for half of senior leaders to come from working-class or non-professional backgrounds by 2030.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
The October 2025 cease-fire plan freed the last remaining Israeli hostages and ostensibly ended hostilities, but Israel continues to constantly strike targets in Gaza, often killing civilians, including some 300 children in the past year.

— KHALED ELGINDY, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of target

Noun

Campbell cautioned that this doesn’t mean that the hundreds of other burials in these areas were also victims of human sacrifice.

— Jack Guy, CNN Money, 7 Oct. 2026
Travis Roy Rogers plays Darrel Curtis, the eldest who has been forced to take on a parental role and is starting to resent all his unappreciated sacrifices.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of sacrifice

Noun

Chances of encountering a shark in Southern California are higher in October, when warmer coastal waters attract both prey and juvenile sharks.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
To give the episodes shape, each is broken up into several mini-narratives, such as a mother cheetah learning to adapt her hunting style to mountainous rocky terrain in order to catch prey for her hungry cubs.

— Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 4 Oct. 2026