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ca·su·al·ty  (kzh-l-t)
n. pl. ca·su·al·ties
1. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
2. One injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.
3. One injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy. Often used in the plural: Battlefield casualties were high.
4. One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or a circumstance: The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.

[Middle English casuelte, from Old French, from Medieval Latin csulits, chance, accident, from Latin csulis, fortuitous; see casual.]

casualty
Noun
pl -ties
1. a person who is killed or injured in an accident or war
2. the hospital department where victims of accidents are given emergency treatment
3. a person or thing that has suffered as the result of a particular event or circumstance: 583 job losses with significant casualties among public-sector employees

casualty
a chance happening. See also injury.
See also: Chance
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.casualtycasualty - someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"
victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
2.casualty - someone injured or killed in an accident
victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
3.casualtycasualty - an accident that causes someone to die
accident - an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury
fatality, human death - a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
collateral damage - (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations
4.casualty - a decrease of military personnel or equipment
equipment casualty, damage - loss of military equipment
personnel casualty, loss - military personnel lost by death or capture
decrease, lessening, drop-off - a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine - the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker"

casualty
noun 2. victim, sufferer

Any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status - whereabouts unknown, missing, ill, or injured. See also casualty category; casualty status; casualty type; duty status - whereabouts unknown; hostile casualty; nonhostile casualty.
Translations
Spanish casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] nvíctima, herido;
(dead) → muerto;
(MIL) → baja;
heavy casualties → numerosas bajas fpl

French casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] naccidenté(e)blessé(e) (= dead); victime f, mort(e);
(Brit) (Med) (= department); urgences fpl;
heavy casualties → lourdes pertes

German casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] n (of war etc) → Opfer nt;
(someone injured) → Verletzte(r) f(m);
(someone killed) → Tote(r) f(m);
(Med) → Unfallstation f;
heavy casualties (Mil) → schwere Verluste pl

Italian casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] nferito/a;
(dead) → morto/a, vittima;
heavy casualties → grosse perdite fpl

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And not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the above hinted casualty --remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab --invested itself with terrors, not entirely underived from the land of spirits and of wails.
The dressers took this in turn; it lasted three days, during which they lived in hospital and ate their meals in the common-room; they had a room on the ground floor near the casualty ward, with a bed that shut up during the day into a cupboard.
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