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},
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"form": "falling victim",
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"ref": "1961, The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship",
"text": "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[…]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, The Stalin Phenomenon, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport",
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}
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"(idiomatic, intransitive) to suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waqaʕa ḍaḥiyya",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "وَقَعَ ضَحِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "saqaṭa ḍaḥiyya",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "سَقَطَ ضَحِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "joutua uhriksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "zum Opfer fallen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "cadere vittima"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "padać ofiarą"
},
{
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"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
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],
"word": "paść ofiarą"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "statʹ žertvoj",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
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"perfective"
],
"word": "стать жертвой"
}
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1989, The Stalin Phenomenon, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "waqaʕa ḍaḥiyya",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "وَقَعَ ضَحِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "saqaṭa ḍaḥiyya",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "سَقَطَ ضَحِيَّة"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "joutua uhriksi"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "zum Opfer fallen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"word": "cadere vittima"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "padać ofiarą"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "paść ofiarą"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "statʹ žertvoj",
"sense": "to suffer through no fault of one's own",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "стать жертвой"
}
],
"word": "fall victim"
}
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