casualty
casualty
Definition
casu·alty (kaz̸h′o̵̅o̅ əl tē)
noun pl. -·ties
- an accident, esp. a fatal one
- Mil.
- a member of the armed forces who is lost to active service through being killed, wounded, captured, interned, sick, or missing
- losses of personnel resulting from death, injury, etc.
- anyone hurt or killed in an accident
- anything lost, destroyed, or made useless by some unfortunate or unforeseen happening
Etymology: ME & OFr casuelte < ML casualitas: see casual
casualty
Synonyms
casualty
n.
A misfortune
accident, mishap, calamity, fatality; see catastrophe, disaster, misfortune 2.A loss in personnel; often plural
killed, wounded, and missing; fatalities, losses, death toll, the injured, dead, victims, missing in action, MIA's.
casualty
Law Definition
n
- An individual or property that has been destroyed, injured, lost, or otherwise made ineffective.
- The harm to an individual or property as a result of a sudden, unexpected, or unusual event.
- An accident, especially one that is fatal or serious.
casualty
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- inflict: Both sides are trying to pin the enemy and inflict casualties.
- suffer: The Allies had suffered 15,000 casualties, 5,000 killed.
- evacuate: Working along side firefighters from Blue watch at Buxton, the team facilitated a hoisting system using technical rope skills to evacuate the casualty.
- injure: Caring for a seriously injured casualty in a remote area is a formidable challenge, even for the most experienced expedition medic.
- commemorate: Other special memorials commemorate ten casualties buried in other cemeteries whose graves could not be found.
- reduce: The council has reduced child casualties by 55 % five years ahead of the government's 2010 deadline.
Adjective modifier
- civilian: Debt of Honor Register provides the names of Second World War civilian casualties.
- non-fatal: INJURIES Smoking material fires account for nearly 14 per cent of all non-fatal casualties in accidental dwelling fires.
- heavy: The 3rd Parachute Division had suffered heavy casualties during its time in Normandy.
- unconscious: Provide buoyancy for an unconscious casualty on the surface.
- fatal: Since 2000 the number of serious and fatal casualties has halved.
- pedestrian: The decline in pedestrian casualties can be attributed largely to their increasing absence from the road environment.
Modifies a noun
- coveragethe: From the table on any small york times offered casualty coveragethe vw.
- evacuation: Served in Malaya in 1950, in casualty evacuation role.
- reduction: The primary aim of Crash Course is casualty reduction from road traffic collisions.
- Co: Across the united casualty insurance co rates are computed coverage in excess.
- toll: After the scandal of the needlessly high casualty toll of the Crimean War ( 1854-56 ), an assumption had taken firm hold.
Noun used with modifier
- motorcyclist: Helmet law had little or no positive impact on motorcyclist casualties.
- motorcycle: We continue to work closely with our partner agencies in efforts to reduce the disproportionate level of motorcycle casualties on our roads.
- road: Please continue to let us know of any road casualty otters seen in our area.
casualty Quotes
The first casualty when war comes is truth.
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