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 Globetrotting sailor faces 30 years, multiple victims cited across separate cases. — FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2026 Anyone who may have been a victim of Kohut can contact the New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety online or by phone at 609-780-5449. — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 26 Aug. 2026 Police rescue a flooding victim Wednesday in Nepal's Nuwakot District. — Matteo Moschella, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026 Parton gave to numerous other causes over the years, including supporting wildfire victims and funding the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. — Eve Chen, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for victim

Recent Examples of Synonyms for victim

Noun

John’s hacking skills prove useful, as does the T-800’s extensive firepower—although per John’s instructions, there are zero human fatalities.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2026
Days after Pennsylvania health officials reported two measles deaths, a public dispute has emerged about whether other factors played a role in the fatalities.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of fatality

Noun

Transits are what revealed most of the more than 6,000 exoplanets now known, and Roman’s planners expect the bulge’s target-rich environment to yield on order of 100,000 more.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2026
As a kinetic interceptor, Seeker appears designed to physically strike its target rather than rely on a conventional air-defense warhead.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of target

Noun

Beyond the sacrifice of American lives, American households have faced higher costs.

— Justin Fishel, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
But to me, the fun of image editing is in the manual tweaks and edits, so like most AI tools, these NexSnap features sacrifice creativity for convenience.

— Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of sacrifice

Noun

The flooding has also resulted in widespread casualties at the border between Nepal and China’s Tibet region.

— Callum Sutherland, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
The true scale of the casualties may take days to become clear, however, with power and communication lines swept away in some areas.

— Matteo Moschella, NBC news, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of casualty

Noun

Granted exclusive access to the nest, the BBC witnessed some of the raptors’ striking feeding behavior, in which the male drops prey in midair and the female rolls upside down to snatch it in her talons.

— Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026
Nearly an hour after a pod separated a humpback whale calf from its mother, the orcas resurfaced carrying their prey between them.

— Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026