Significato di victim in inglese

victim

/ˈvɪk.tɪm/ us

/ˈvɪk.təm/

someone or something that has been hurt, damaged, or killed or has suffered, either because of the actions of someone or something else, or because of illness or chance:

to provide financial aid to hurricane/flood, etc. victims

victims of crime

The children are the innocent/helpless victims of the fighting.

The new drug might help save the lives of cancer victims.

We appear to have been the victims of a cruel practical joke.

Our local hospital has become the latest victim of the cuts in government spending.

fall victim to something

to be hurt, damaged, or killed because of something or someone:

Sea turtles in this region often fall victim to the effects of pollution.

The company has fallen victim to increased competition.

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The murderer had lured his victim to a deserted house.
She claimed to have been a victim of child abuse.
They're launching an appeal to raise money for famine victims.
Road accident victims make up almost a quarter of the hospital's patients.
The victim had received repeated blows to the head and body.

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Experiencing and suffering

Injuring and injuries

Espressione idiomatica

be a victim of your own success

(Definizione di victim dal Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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victim

noun [ C ]

/ˈvɪk·təm/

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a person who has suffered the effects of violence or illness or bad luck:

an accident victim

She’s just a victim of circumstances beyond her control.

victimization

noun [ U ] us

/ˌvɪk·tə·məˈzeɪ·ʃən/

National reports of victimization show a decline in certain kinds of crime.

victimize

verb [ T ] us

/ˈvɪk·təˌmɑɪz/

One survey showed the number of companies victimized by computer theft rose to 83 percent this year.

(Definizione di victim dal Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Esempi di victim

victim

In the compensation plans for injured workers and the victim's family, workers with longer tenure were rewarded.

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The latter response is reinforced in us by our obligation to stand in solidarity with victims of wrongdoing against those who have wronged them.

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Importance of recovering victims and their personal effects.

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But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success.

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As a policy argument, however, this kind of argument from hypotheticals falls victim to the difficulties described in the previous subsection.

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In addition, states such as the one from which these data come offer similar definitions of "family violence" as it relates to adult victims.

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Neither perpetrator nor victim could criticize the punishment decided by the magistrate and higher-ranking officials.

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The creoles described above provided one important tool that made statistics comprehensible and convincing so that people could more easily imagine themselves as potential victims.

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In both cases, certain victims, heroes, enemies and scapegoats were at the heart of the interpretation.

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Would it be too dramatic to claim that he was a victim of truth?

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The remaining nine talk about crime (some of our elderly have become victims of crime).

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In both cases, the victims were acquainted with the men who were accused of attacking them.

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The apology induces the victim to risk believing that the transgressor will be a co-operator evermore.

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There the defendant unquestionably chose to interfere in the victim's exclusive domain of choice, and so there is no doubt about his liability to punishment.

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Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expression, which triggers empathy).

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alleged victim

That the alleged victim had suffered a rib contusion is thus a false proposition.

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blameless victim

But they did believe that the public felt a sense of responsibility for, and sympathy with, the blameless victim.

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Hansard archive

Esempi tratti dall’archivio Hansard. Contiene dati parlamentari concessi ai sensi della Licenza libera parlamentare v3.0

female victim

In court, a female victim should give evidence that she has been subjected to fear, harassment and humiliation through the activities of such a motorist.

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Esempi tratti dall’archivio Hansard. Contiene dati parlamentari concessi ai sensi della Licenza libera parlamentare v3.0

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