casualty
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- noun
- /ˈkæʒuəlti/
:
víctima
- 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
Because 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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A person who is physically harmed by an accident or crime
Antonyms
Compounds
- Jargon
Loss or serious damage to military equipment caused by an enemy attack
- Specialized
A member of the military who is killed or captured during a fight
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.