Casualty
['kæʒjʊəltɪ;-zj-] or ['kæʒuəlti]
Definition
(noun.) a decrease of military personnel or equipment.
(noun.) someone injured or killed in an accident.
(noun.) someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
Edited by Faye--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
(n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
(n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Chance, fortuity, contingency, hap, unforeseen event.[2]. Accident, disaster, misfortune, calamity, mischance, catastrophy.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accident, contingency, chance, fortuity, {[hap]?}, misfortune, occurrence,mischance,[See ACCIDENT]
ANT:Appointment, assignment, provision, ordinance, enactment
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Examples
- This move was made without a single casualty in either branch of the service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Rather a good accident brought into the casualty ward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A casualty to Sherman that would have taken him from the field that day would have been a sad one for the troops engaged at Shiloh. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our casualties during these operations amounted to 394 killed, I,554 wounded and 324 missing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Our casualties for the day were nine killed and forty-seven wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The casualties on our side during the siege amounted to sixty-four officers and men, killed and wounded. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This last attack only served to increase our casualties without giving any benefit whatever. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Then by casualties of war, sickness, and other natural causes, their losses were much heavier. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The casualties of the feudal law were taxes upon the transference of land, both from the dead to the living, and from the living to the living. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We heard of no casualties among them, and no sickness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The lists of casualties are carried on from day to day: you stop in the midst as in a story which is to be continued in our next. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- So far a long train of casualties has marked the airship’s progress. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The siege had lasted a number of days, but the casualties were few in number. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A tendency existed at the time to assume that electricity was altogether safe, while its opponents, predicating their attacks on arc-lighting casualties, insisted it was most dangerous. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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