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fall victim en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions.
   • Arsenal also have a score to settle with Liverpool after losing 2-0 at home in the recent FA Cup third-round tie, when they had so many chances to score before almost inevitably falling victim to two late sucker-punches. 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
   • F. Platten led a group of several score Swiss workers with their families (many of them subsequently also fell victim to repression) who had organized an agricultural co-operative not far from Simbirsk, Lenin's birthplace, back in 1923. 1989, The Stalin Phenomenon, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division:
   • 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[…] 1961, The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship:

Forms

Synonyms

fall prey

Translations (14)

bg стана жертва (suffer through no fault of one's own) · bg ставам жертва (suffer through no fault of one's own) · ar سَقَطَ ضَحِيَّة (suffer through no fault of one's own) · pl padać ofiarą (suffer through no fault of one's own) · es ser / caer víctima de (suffer through no fault of one's own) · ru становиться жертвой (suffer through no fault of one's own) · eo iĝis viktimo (suffer through no fault of one's own) · ar وَقَعَ ضَحِيَّة (suffer through no fault of one's own) · pl paść ofiarą (suffer through no fault of one's own) · it cadere vittima (suffer through no fault of one's own) · de zum Opfer fallen (suffer through no fault of one's own) · ru стать жертвой (suffer through no fault of one's own) · fi joutua uhriksi (suffer through no fault of one's own) · cmn 淪為受害者 /沦为受害者 (suffer through no fault of one's own)