death toll
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3.5
- noun
- /dɛθ toʊl/
- Literature
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número de muertos
- This was that city's highest daily death toll of the war.
- rising death toll
- estimated death toll
- death toll from AIDS
It's just that the death toll from fossil fuels is less visible.
- It's just that the death toll from fossil fuels is less visible.
- But actually the death toll is up.
- How it hyped the CNN COVID virus and the death toll to the point where it became absurd.
- The comments that Biden made to the five Muslim leaders about the death toll figures is is very distressing.
- So in theory or actual death toll of the war.
- But my daughter is absorbing society and society's got the death toll thing up there.
- At this point the death toll is so mechanical that it almost seems to lose meaning.
- When the United States head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff finally comes out and comments on the death toll.
Examples
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Fears of another wave intensify as the worldwide death toll rises.
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What made swine flu so worrisome was the high death toll it wrought in Mexico.
Blog text (7) -
And very unfortunately the the total death toll is still expected to increase.
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That changes the death toll to 16.
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The death toll is now up to eight women.
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The initial death toll will shake world governments to their core.
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The death toll is still at 53.
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The final death toll in the Bay Area tragedy: 63 lives.
Academic text (2010) -
The death toll is at 144 and still rising.
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The death toll from the earthquake has now risen to 100 people.
Synonyms
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5.9
The harm or damage an event causes to people and property
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3.5
Deaths of people caused by accidents, disasters, or violence
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5.1
The number of people killed in a battle or attack
How Many
Surface Forms
Morphology
Given knowledge of 'death' (end of life) and 'toll' (extent of harm/loss or casualties), a B1 learner can readily infer 'death toll' as the number or extent of deaths from an event; the compound is a direct compositional combination. This noun phrase follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern of combining a harm word with 'toll' or equivalent to indicate casualty counts, so the meaning is immediately derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Death toll comes from a simple image long ago: people rang a church bell when someone 'died' and counted the rings. The bell sound was the toll, so the number of rings showed how many had 'died', which is why death toll now means that number.