fall victim

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fall victim

verb falls victim · falling victim · fell victim · fallen victim

  1. idiomatic, intransitive To suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions. Obviously, birds are very vulnerable to human persecution at such passage sites, where hecatombs of raptors fall victim every year to human greed or pleasure. Examples of important areas for seasonal mass migration and / or resting of[…]

    Similar: fall prey

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verb suffer through no fault of one's own

Españolser / caer víctima de
中文淪為受害者 /沦为受害者 lúnwéi shòuhàizhě
Deutschzum Opfer fallen
Italianocadere vittima
Русскийстать жертвой statʹ žertvoj, становиться жертвой stanovitʹsja žertvoj
العربيةوَقَعَ ضَحِيَّة waqaʕa ḍaḥiyya, سَقَطَ ضَحِيَّة saqaṭa ḍaḥiyya

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@misc{fall_victim_2026,
  title = {fall victim},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fall%20victim},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}