casualty
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈkæʒuəlti/
- Officials at the church are maintaining a list of casualties and the hospitals where they are being treated.
- civilian casualties
- number of casualties
- suffer casualties
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Watch on YouTubeBecause there are always going to be casualties that, you know, collateral damage.
- Because there are always going to be casualties that, you know, collateral damage.
- And then you have real casualties, mass casualties and mass chaos, like true, true chaos.
- So he was one of the early casualties.
- They tended to avoid large scale civilian casualties.
- The French held up remarkably well to catastrophic casualties in the first six months of the First World War.
- And it was the first time I'd seen an American casualty.
- And you keep saying, but I said drop the bomb, but minimize civilian casualties.
- We don't know what how the Russian people will will react to these horrendous casualties.
Examples
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We need that because a lot of our casualties are not reported on.
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There was also no difficulty evacuating casualties from the front lines to medical centers within Israel.
Academic text (2015) -
Sir, a casualty report came.
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And there are many casualties in this world.
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The rescue units were under orders to bring out all the casualties, at any cost.
Fiction book (1993) -
Eleven thousand casualties in two weeks.
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Over the past year, the coalition has made preventing civilian casualties a top priority.
Academic text (2011) -
With over a million casualties from the Battle of Verdun alone, the death toll continues to climb.
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The accident resulted in several casualty reports being filed by the authorities.
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The war left many families mourning their lost casualty who never returned home.
Synonyms
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5.5
A person who is physically harmed by an accident or crime
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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9.3
A member of the military who is killed or captured during a fight
- Jargon
Loss or serious damage to military equipment caused by an enemy attack
How Severe
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Casualty comes from the old Latin word casus, which means 'chance' or 'what happens'. So a casualty is a person who is hurt, killed, or missing because of an event that happened unexpectedly, like an accident or an attack.