Accused vs. Victim

Accusedverb

simple past tense and past participle of accuse

Accusednoun

(legal) The person charged with an offense; the defendant in a criminal case.

Accusedadjective

Having been accused; being the target of accusations.

Accusedadjective

Charged with offense; as, an accused person.

Accusednoun

a defendant in a criminal proceeding

Accusednoun

a person or group of people who are charged with or on trial for a crime

Victimnoun

One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:

Victimnoun

One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.

Victimnoun

One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.

Victimnoun

One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.

Victimnoun

One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.

Victimnoun

A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.

Victimnoun

The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.

Victimnoun

A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.

Victimnoun

A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.

Victimnoun

A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.

Victimnoun

Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.

Victimnoun

an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

Victimnoun

a person who is tricked or swindled