Victim

//ˈvɪktɪm//

Synonyms for "victim" (93 found)

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Translations

282 translations across 71 languages.

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Afrikaans

4 entries
  • slagoffer noun (one who is harmed)
  • slagoffer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • slagoffer noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • slagoffer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Albanian

1 entries
  • viktimë noun (one who is harmed)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • σφάγιον noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Arabic

4 entries
  • أضحية noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • أُضْحِيَّة noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • ضحية noun (one who is harmed)
  • ضَحِيَّة noun (one who is harmed)

Armenian

4 entries
  • զոհ noun (one who is harmed)
  • զոհ noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • զոհ noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • զոհ noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Assamese

1 entries
  • বলি noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Azerbaijani

4 entries
  • qurban noun (one who is harmed)
  • qurban noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • zərərçəkən noun (one who is harmed)
  • zərərçəkən noun (one who is harmed by a crime)

Bashkir

1 entries
  • ҡорбан noun (one who is harmed)

Belarusian

4 entries
  • афя́ра noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • ахвя́ра noun (one who is harmed)
  • ахвя́ра noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • ахвя́ра noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Bengali

2 entries
  • বলি noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • শিকার noun (one who is harmed)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • же́ртва noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Catalan

4 entries
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries
  • 受害人 noun (one who is harmed)
  • 受害者 noun (one who is harmed)
  • 受害者 noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • 受難者 /受难者 noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)

Classical Nahuatl

1 entries
  • xōchimicqui noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Czech

4 entries
  • oběť noun (one who is harmed)
  • oběť noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • oběť noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • oběť noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Danish

4 entries
  • offer noun (one who is harmed)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)

Dutch

4 entries
  • gedupeerde noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • slachtoffer noun (one who is harmed)
  • slachtoffer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • slachtoffer noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • viktimo noun (one who is harmed by a crime)

Estonian

4 entries
  • ohver noun (one who is harmed)
  • ohver noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • ohver noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • ohver noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Finnish

4 entries
  • uhri noun (one who is harmed)
  • uhri noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • uhri noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • uhri noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

French

4 entries
  • victime noun (one who is harmed)
  • victime noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • victime noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • victime noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Galician

4 entries
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Georgian

4 entries
  • დაზარალებული noun (one who is harmed)
  • დაზარალებული noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • დაზარალებული noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • დაზარალებული noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

German

4 entries
  • Opfer noun (one who is harmed)
  • Opfer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • Opfer noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • Opfer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Greek

4 entries
  • θύμα noun (one who is harmed)
  • θύμα noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • θύμα noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • θύμα noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Haitian Creole

1 entries
  • viktim noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Hebrew

4 entries
  • חָלָל noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • חָלָל noun (casualty of hostility)
  • נפגע noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • קָרְבָּן \ קורבן noun (one who is harmed)

Hindi

1 entries
  • शिकार noun (one who is harmed)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • sértett noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • áldozat noun (one who is harmed)
  • áldozat noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • áldozat noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Indonesian

1 entries
  • kurban noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Iranian Persian

4 entries
  • ضَحِیِه noun (one who is harmed)
  • قُرْبانی noun (one who is harmed)
  • قُرْبانی noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • قُرْبانی noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Italian

4 entries
  • vittima noun (one who is harmed)
  • vittima noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • vittima noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • vittima noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Japanese

4 entries
  • 犠牲 noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • 犠牲者 noun (one who is harmed)
  • 生贄 noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • 被害者 noun (one who is harmed by a crime)

Kazakh

1 entries
  • құрбан noun (one who is harmed)

Khmer

2 entries
  • ជនរងគ្រោះ noun (one who is harmed)
  • ជនរងគ្រោះ noun (one who is harmed by a crime)

Korean

4 entries
  • 피해자 noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • 희생 noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • 희생물 noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • 희생자 noun (one who is harmed)

Kyrgyz

2 entries
  • курман noun (one who is harmed)
  • курмандык noun (one who is harmed)

Lao

1 entries
  • ເຫຍື່ອ noun (one who is harmed)

Latgalian

3 entries
  • pazīds noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • upere noun (one who is harmed)
  • upere noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Latin

2 entries
  • hostia noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • victima noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Latvian

3 entries
  • upuris noun (one who is harmed)
  • upuris noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • upuris noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Lithuanian

2 entries
  • auka noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • auka noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • жртва noun (one who is harmed)
  • жртва noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • жртва noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Malay

4 entries
  • korban noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • mangsa noun (one who is harmed)
  • mangsa noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • mangsa noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)

Maltese

1 entries
  • vittma noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Māori

4 entries
  • kaupēhipēhi noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • marurenga noun (one who is harmed)
  • marurenga noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • marurenga noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Norwegian Bokmål

4 entries
  • dødsoffer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • dødsoffer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Old English

2 entries
  • onsægednes noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • tiber noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries
  • ضحیة noun (one who is harmed)
  • مغدور noun (one who is harmed)

Polish

4 entries
  • ofiara noun (one who is harmed)
  • ofiara noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • ofiara noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • ofiara noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • sacrifício noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • vítima noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)

Romanian

3 entries
  • jertfă noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • victimă noun (one who is harmed)
  • victimă noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Russian

4 entries
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Scottish Gaelic

4 entries
  • ìobairteach noun (one who is harmed)
  • ìobairteach noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • ìobairteach noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • ìobairteach noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • žȑtva noun (one who is harmed)
  • žȑtva noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • žȑtva noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • žȑtva noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Slovak

4 entries
  • obeť noun (one who is harmed)
  • obeť noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • obeť noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • obeť noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Slovene

4 entries
  • žrtev noun (one who is harmed)
  • žrtev noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • žrtev noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • žrtev noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Spanish

4 entries
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • víctima noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Swedish

4 entries
  • offer noun (one who is harmed)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • offer noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Tagalog

3 entries
  • gihod noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • gihod noun (one who is harmed by their own undertakings)
  • gihod noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Tajik

1 entries
  • қурбонӣ noun (one who is harmed)

Tatar

1 entries
  • корбан noun (one who is harmed)

Thai

3 entries
  • เหยื่อ noun (one who is harmed)
  • เหยื่อ noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • เหยื่อ noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Turkish

3 entries
  • kurban noun (one who is harmed)
  • kurban noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • kurban noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Turkmen

2 entries
  • gurban noun (one who is harmed)
  • gurbanlyk noun (one who is harmed)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a crime)
  • же́ртва noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)
  • же́ртва noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)

Urdu

2 entries
  • شِکار noun (one who is harmed)
  • قُرْبانی noun (one who is harmed)

Uyghur

2 entries
  • قۇربان noun (one who is harmed)
  • قۇربانلىق noun (one who is harmed)

Uzbek

2 entries
  • qurbon noun (one who is harmed)
  • qurbonlik noun (one who is harmed)

Vietnamese

3 entries
  • lễ vật noun (a living being slain and offered as a sacrifice)
  • nạn nhân noun (one who is harmed)
  • nạn nhân noun (one who is harmed by a disaster or other adverse circumstance)

Sample sentences

35 total sentences available.

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The victim of blackmail has been paying hush money for years, but now he realizes it is foolish, and has decided not to pay a red cent more.

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The tarantula seized its victim very quickly.

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Who is the victim of the accident?

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The victim is thought to have taken a large quantity of poison by mistake.

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