victim- +

1. An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance.
2. Someone who is hurt, or killed, by someone or something; especially, in a crime, accident, or disaster; such as, a murder victim.
3. Someone who is adversely affected by an action, or circumstance, whether by a human or as a result of some natural cause. 4. Anyone who is tricked or exploited.
5. A live human, or animal, used as a sacrifice or in a religious rite.
6. A person who experiences misfortune and feels helpless to remedy it. 7. Etymology: "a living creature killed and offered as a sacrifice to a deity or supernatural power"; borrowed from Middle French victime, and directly from Latin victima, "person" or "animal killed as a sacrifice", or "any sacrifice".

It might be distantly connected to Old English wig, "idol" with the notion of "a consecrated animal".

The meaning of "a person who is hurt, tortured, or killed by someone" is first recorded in 1660; while the meaning of "a person oppressed by some power or situation" is from 1718. The weaker sense of "a person taken advantage of" is recorded from 1781.

1. Anyone who can be defrauded, swindled, or made into a dupe and cheated.
2. Someone who can be injured or killed, as by a misfortune or a calamity.

1. Adversity resulting from being made a victim.
2. An act that exploits or victimizes someone or which treats that person unfairly.
3. An unwarranted singling out of an individual, or group, for subjection to crime, exploitation, tort, unfair treatment, or other wrong doing.

1. To subject someone to a swindle or a fraud.
2. To single a person out unfairly for punishment or for ill treatment.
3. To kill as, or like, a sacrificial victim.

A person who victimizes others; that is, who punishes unjustly or who deprives someone of something by deceit.

1. Lacking any victim, or injured party, as certain crimes.
2. A reference to a crime in which there is no injured party; for example, there are people who believe that gambling and prostitution are victimless crimes.

In a victimless crime, no one suffers directly, sometimes because the people affected by the crime have agreed to take part in it.

1. The study of crime victims of violent or sexual assault.
2. The study of the victims of crimes and the psychological effects on them.
3. The study of the victims of crimes, and especially of the reasons why some people are more prone to be victims.

The provision of advice and counseling to victims of crime