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fallvictim (third-person singular simple presentfalls victim,present participlefalling victim,simple pastfell victim,past participlefallen victim)

1. (idiomatic,intransitive) Tosuffer as a result of externalcircumstances or someone else's actions.

   Synonym:fall prey

   • 1961,The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship:

     Obviously, birds are very vulnerable to human persecution at such passage sites, where hecatombs of raptorsfall victim every year to human greed or pleasure. Examples of important areas for seasonal mass migration and / or resting of […]

   • 1989,The Stalin Phenomenon, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division:

     F. Platten led a group of several score Swiss workers with their families (many of them subsequently alsofell victim to repression) who had organized an agricultural co-operative not far from Simbirsk, Lenin's birthplace, back in 1923.

   • 2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, inBBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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 inevitablyfalling victim to two late sucker-punches.