casualty
Military.
a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
one who is injured or killed in an accident: There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event: Their house was a casualty of the fire.
a serious accident, especially one involving bodily injury or death.
Origin of casualty
1Words that may be confused with casualty
- casualty , causality
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How to use casualty in a sentence
Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.
The Walking Dead piled up an impressive body count in 2014, with Lizzie, Hershel, and Beth among its major casualties.
The Red Viper, Zoe Barnes, and the Best Fictional Deaths of 2014 | Melissa Leon | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAmong the casualties with the most dangerous implications for their future is education.
Like Cohen, many of these casualties were white Democrats from below the Mason-Dixon Line.
But IBC is also a fair bit more inclusive in its definition of war casualties.
ISIS Fighters Are Killing Faster than Statisticians Can Count | Peter Schwartzstein | December 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
He has straightened out his line on the left; after a fierce fight which has cost him no less than 700 fresh casualties.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThat will give us time to turn about us, and to prepare ourselves against similar unpleasant casualties.
The American casualties that day, due solely to the morning skirmishes, amounted to four killed and thirty wounded.
The Philippine Islands | John ForemanI have no reserves in base depots now, while the operations we are engaged in are such that heavy casualties are to be expected.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonSince the number of casualties was extremely high during this battle, Jackson allowed Banks to bury his dead the following day.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey
British Dictionary definitions for casualty
/ (ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ) /
a serviceman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action
a person who is injured or killed in an accident
a hospital department in which victims of accidents, violence, etc, are treated
anything that is lost, damaged, or destroyed as the result of an accident, etc
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