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falling victim

falling victim is the present participle and gerund of fall victim.

Meaning of fall victim

Verb

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.
    • 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[…]1961, The Horace M. Albright Conservation Lectureship
    Synonyms:
    fall prey

Questions about falling victim

What is falling victim the present participle and gerund of?
Falling victim is the present participle and gerund of fall victim.

Words near falling victim in the dictionary

  1. falling tone
  2. falling tones
  3. falling under
  4. falling up
  5. falling upon
  6. falling victim
  7. Falling Waters
  8. falling weather
  9. falling-off
  10. falling-out
  11. falling-sickness

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