be a victim of your own success

victim | American Dictionary

victim
noun[ C ]
us/ˈvɪk·təm/
a person who has suffered the effects of violence or illness or bad luck:
an accident victim
She’s just a victim of circumstances beyond her control.

victimization

noun[ U ]us/ˌvɪk·tə·məˈzeɪ·ʃən/
National reports of victimization show a decline in certain kinds of crime.

victimize

verb[ T ]us/ˈvɪk·təˌmɑɪz/
One survey showed the number of companies victimized by computer theft rose to 83 percent this year.

Examples of victim

victim
In the compensation plans for injured workers and the victim's family, workers with longer tenure were rewarded.
The latter response is reinforced in us by our obligation to stand in solidarity with victims of wrongdoing against those who have wronged them.
But by the opening decade of the twentieth century the railroads had become victims of their own success.
As a policy argument, however, this kind of argument from hypotheticals falls victim to the difficulties described in the previous subsection.
In addition, states such as the one from which these data come offer similar definitions of "family violence" as it relates to adult victims.
Neither perpetrator nor victim could criticize the punishment decided by the magistrate and higher-ranking officials.
The creoles described above provided one important tool that made statistics comprehensible and convincing so that people could more easily imagine themselves as potential victims.
In both cases, certain victims, heroes, enemies and scapegoats were at the heart of the interpretation.
Would it be too dramatic to claim that he was a victim of truth?
The remaining nine talk about crime (some of our elderly have become victims of crime).
In both cases, the victims were acquainted with the men who were accused of attacking them.
The apology induces the victim to risk believing that the transgressor will be a co-operator evermore.
There the defendant unquestionably chose to interfere in the victim's exclusive domain of choice, and so there is no doubt about his liability to punishment.
Perspective-taking can also initiate a preverbal process (one hears about a familiar victim's misfortune and imagines his facial expression, which triggers empathy).
After all, there is an extensive collection of survivors' memoirs and testimonies, in which we can hear the voice of the victims themselves.
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Collocations withvictim

victim

These are words often used in combination with victim.

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alleged victim
That the allegedvictim had suffered a rib contusion is thus a false proposition.
blameless victim
But they did believe that the public felt a sense of responsibility for, and sympathy with, the blameless victim.
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