Verb
fall victim (third-person singular simple present falls victim, present participle falling victim, simple past fell victim, past participle fallen victim)
(idiomatic, intransitive) to suffer as a result of external circumstances or someone else's actions
Wishful thinking gives false gods to people who hunger for gods, but those who yearn for a world with no gods are no less likely to fall victim to their own wishful thinking. Orson Scott Card
The party was beginning to get noisy-not boisterous, but noisy. It was beginning to acquire that stale air of futility to which, in the end, all parties must fall victim. Clifford D. Simak
Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. Spencer Bachus
I ask the American people not to fall victim to disinformation. There are no death panels. The Affordable Care Act cuts the deficit. Al Franken
Men will die upon dogma but will not fall victim to a conclusion. John Henry Newman
The crucial thing is to arouse the awareness that as a matter of human conscience we can never permit the people of any country to fall victim to nuclear weapons, and for each individual to express their refusal to continue living in the shadow of the threat they pose. Daisaku Ikeda