victim
nounOne who is harmed or killed by another, especially by someone committing a criminal or unlawful act.
nounA living creature slain and offered as a sacrifice during a religious rite.
nounOne who is harmed by or made to suffer under a circumstance or condition.
nounA person who is tricked, swindled, or taken advantage of.
nounA living being sacrificed to a deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; usually, some beast slain in sacrifice: but the sacrifice of human beings has been practised by many peoples with the object of appeasing the wrath or conciliating the favor of some deity, or in the ceremonies connected with the making of vows and covenants.
nounA person sacrificed; a person killed or ruined, or greatly injured, or made to suffer in the pursuit of an object, or for the gratification of a passion or infatuation, or from disease or disaster: as, many have fallen victims to jealousy, to ambition; a victim to rheumatism; the victims of a railroad accident.
nounOne who is cheated or duped; a dupe; a gull: as, the victim of a confidence man.
nounA living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
nounA person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion.
nounA person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident.