"fall victim" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-fall victim.ogg Forms: falls victim [present, singular, third-person], falling victim [participle, present], fell victim [past], fallen victim [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|fall<,,fell,fallen> victim}} fall victim (third-person singular simple present falls victim, present participle falling victim, simple past fell victim, past participle fallen victim)
  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions Tags: idiomatic, intransitive Synonyms: fall prey Translations (to suffer through no fault of one's own): وَقَعَ ضَحِيَّة (waqaʕa ḍaḥiyya) (Arabic), سَقَطَ ضَحِيَّة (saqaṭa ḍaḥiyya) (Arabic), joutua uhriksi (Finnish), zum Opfer fallen (German), cadere vittima (Italian), padać ofiarą [imperfective] (Polish), paść ofiarą [perfective] (Polish), стать жертвой (statʹ žertvoj) [perfective] (Russian), ser víctima (de) (Spanish), caer víctima (de) (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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