casualty

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.

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

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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

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casualty

a chance happening. See also injury.

See also: Chance

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	casualty - 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 injured party victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
	3.	casualty - an accident that causes someone to die fatal accident 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"

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casualty

noun 1. fatality, death, loss, wounded

noun 2. victim, sufferer

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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

casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] n → víctima, herido;

(dead) → muerto;

(MIL) → baja;

heavy casualties → numerosas bajas fpl

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casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] n → accidenté(e) → blessé(e) (= dead); victime f, mort(e);

(Brit) (Med) (= department); urgences fpl;

heavy casualties → lourdes pertes

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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

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casualty [ˈkæʒjultɪ] n → ferito/a;

(dead) → morto/a, vittima;

heavy casualties → grosse perdite fpl