victim

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According to the Sacramento Police Department, the victim is Asian, in his mid-20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 130 pounds.

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  1. noun One who is harmed or killed by another: a victim of a mugging.
  2. noun A living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.
  3. noun One who is harmed by or made to suffer from an act, circumstance, agency, or condition: victims of war.
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  • That she had spent so much of her time in captivity not feeling like a victim was a tribute to Michael. —  One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze
  • Maybe the victim is a girl in middle school who is larger than her male counterparts, and likes sports, and is called a tomboy-or worse. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • Or maybe the victim is a 10-year-old little boy who just finished the fifth grade. —  Independent Weekly: All Recent Stories
  • Identified as Casmir Snyder, the victim was an employee of the City Department of Public Works as a Motor Equipment Operator. —  News Channel 9: Local News
  • According to police and the victim, the suspect allegedly opened the car door as the victim was filling the gas tank and grabbed her wallet and shut the door softly. —  Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories
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victim:   victims
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  1. Latin victima.

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  1. from French victime = Spanish víctima = Portuguese victima = Italian vittima, from Latin victima, a beast for sacrifice, prob. so called as being adorned with a fillet or band, from vincire (√ vinc, vic), bind, bind around, wind: see vinculum. Cf. vicia, vetch, prob. from the same root, also prob. vitta, a band, fillet, usually derived (as victima is also by some derived) from viere, past participle vietus, bend or twist together, plait, weave, a root prob. ult. connected with that above mentioned.
 

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/ˈvɪktɪm/
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