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Add to word list. a person hurt or killed in a war or other destructive event, or something prevented by an event: The number of casualties from Sunday's tsunami continues to rise. New team uniforms were a casualty of the budget cuts.
noun. ca· su· al· ty ˈka-zhəl-tē. ˈkazh-wəl-, ˈka-zhə-wəl-. plural casualties. Synonyms of casualty. 1. a. : a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action.
Add to word list. a person hurt or killed in a war or other destructive event, or something prevented by an event: The number of casualties from Sunday's tsunami continues to rise. New team uniforms were a casualty of the budget cuts.
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.
CASUALTY definition: 1. someone who is injured or killed in an accident or war: 2. someone or something that is badly…. Learn more.
Anyone who loses life or limb, either in the fighting or as a civilian, is called a casualty. You can also use this word figuratively: if a local elementary school loses funding for their art classes and after-school activities, you can say that the students are casualties of budget cuts.
Britannica Dictionary definition of CASUALTY. 1. [count] : a person who is hurt or killed during an accident, war, etc. a low number of casualties. The army suffered/took/sustained heavy casualties [=many soldiers were killed or wounded] in the town. casualty rates [=the number of people wounded or killed each day] 2.
loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion. See full dictionary entry for casualty. Most material © 2005, 1997, 1991 by Penguin Random House LLC. Modified entries © 2019 by Penguin Random House LLC and HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
Nov 10, 2022 · WASHINGTON — Russia’s war in Ukraine has left more than 100,000 of Moscow’s troops dead or wounded, and Ukraine has probably suffered a similar number of casualties, the United States ...
noun. /ˈkæʒəlti/ , /ˈkæʒuəlti/. (pl. casualties) a person who is killed or injured in war or in an accident highway casualties Both sides had suffered heavy casualties (= many people had been killed). Topic Collocations.
