victims
Casualties of wrongdoing
Victims is the plural of victim—people who suffer harm, injury, loss, or death from events, circumstances, or the actions of others.
Crime victims experience robbery, assault, or worse.
Accident victims suffer from crashes or disasters.
The word extends to those exploited or deceived: victims of a scam, victims of circumstance.
Someone who plays the victim exaggerates their suffering for sympathy.
Those killed or wounded
- affectedArtificially contrived behavior
- displacedShifted from proper location
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
- survivorsThose still alive after
rescue · relief · aid · evacuation · aftermath · recovery · rebuilding · homeless
Lasting psychological wound
- griefIntense sorrow from loss
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- painBodily or emotional distress
- tormentSevere prolonged suffering
abuse · neglect · hardship · misery · despair · sorrow · affliction · agony
Animal being hunted
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- huntPursuit of quarry
- stalkPlant's vertical support
- quarryPit for extracting rock
vulnerable · exploitation · trafficking · grooming · lure · entrap · manipulate · coerce
Violent offensive act
- robberyTheft through intimidation
- murderDeliberate unlawful killing
- theftUnlawful taking of property
- kidnappingUnlawful seizure of person
rape · witness · testimony · restitution · compensation · justice · perpetrator · offender
Free of wrongdoing
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- vulnerableOpen to attack
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
bystanders · civilians · noncombatants · collateral · uninvolved · caught · wrongful · exonerated
casualties
Those killed or wounded
- affectedArtificially contrived behavior
- displacedShifted from proper location
- refugeesPeople seeking safety elsewhere
survivors · rescue · relief · aid · evacuation · aftermath · recovery · rebuilding · homeless · stranded
trauma
Lasting psychological wound
torment · abuse · neglect · hardship · misery · despair · sorrow · affliction · agony · distress
prey
Animal being hunted
quarry · vulnerable · exploitation · trafficking · grooming · lure · entrap · manipulate · coerce · deceive
assault
Violent offensive act
kidnapping · rape · witness · testimony · restitution · compensation · justice · perpetrator · offender · report
blameless
Free of wrongdoing
- defenselessWithout means to resist
- helplessUnable to act independently
- vulnerableOpen to attack
unsuspecting · bystanders · civilians · noncombatants · collateral · uninvolved · caught · wrongful · exonerated · undeserving
- justicecourtroom, trials, retributive justice, courts, gavel
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- 9/11World Trade Center, Twin Towers, Ground Zero, September 11, Pentagon
- Black Deathbubonic plague, Black Death, plague doctors, buboes, Yersinia pestis
- carnagebloodshed, bloodbath, massacre, slaughter, butchery
- Romanian Revolutionhelicopter escape, firing squad, execution, Bucharest, demonstrators
victimsperpetrators
Those who commit wrongs
aggressors · victimizers · offenders · criminals · culprits
victimsoppressors
Those who subjugate others
predators · exploiters · dominators · victimizers · masters
victimssurvivors
Those still alive after
beneficiaries · winners · victors · profiteers · escapees
- victim rightsLegal protections for harmed parties
- fell victimWas harmed by something
- fall victimBecome harmed by something
- fallen victimBeen harmed by something
- burn victimPerson injured by heat
- fashion victimPerson ruled by trends
victim, victimize, victimized, victimizer, victimization, victimizing, victimizes, victimhood, victimless