Victim | Word Victim at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

While the term victim seems to focus on what actually happened to the person, the term survivor emphasizes what occurs after the encounter.
Here, the victim is a loquacious old man who rambles a bit.
Police said that the victim is an acquaintance of the assailant.
Not indeed when the victim is a child and the crime a heinous one.

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