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falls victim

falls victim is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 falls victim

What is falls victim the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Falls victim is the third-person singular simple present indicative of fall victim.

Words near falls victim in the dictionary

  1. falls to the ground
  2. falls together
  3. falls under
  4. falls up
  5. falls upon
  6. falls victim
  7. Falls Village
  8. Fallsburg
  9. fallscape
  10. fallscapes
  11. Fallside

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