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Casualty   /kˈæʒəwəlti/  /kˈæʒwəlti/  /kˈæʒəlti/   Listen
Casualty

noun
(pl. casualties)
1.
Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement.
2.
Someone injured or killed in an accident.  Synonym: injured party.
3.
An accident that causes someone to die.  Synonym: fatal accident.
4.
A decrease of military personnel or equipment.



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"Casualty" Quotes from Famous Books



... of thought is broken. The preceding paragraphs have been working up the reader's interest in casualty insurance by pointing out the dangers to which he is exposed, the humiliating position in which it will place him and his family to be the recipients of charity in case of sickness or accident, and so on. Then the writer short-circuits the reader's ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... and as they entered they all ran up side by side on the beach. Raby led them with the same good success as his captain, though the marines with their muskets had some difficulty in getting up, and ran no little risk of falling over again; but no casualty occurred. It was, however, a long business, thus getting up in a single file at so slow a pace, but at last the whole body were drawn up together. Captain Fleetwood, for greater convenience, separated them into two divisions, ...
— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston
... don't know," says Vee. "But a month or so ago I saw the name printed in an army list of returned casualty cases—there was a boy, you know, and a girl—and I thought then that we ought to look them up and find out. Then I forgot all about it until just a few moments ago. Let's go there, Torchy, before we go ...
— Torchy and Vee • Sewell Ford
... pupils daily handling their teams skilfully; not a few of them giving me good reason to be really proud of them, as I know they do me credit. In my description of my driving career, I stated that I had never had an accident; I ought to have said, no serious casualty, never having upset or injured any one; but I have had many trifling mishaps, such as running foul of a waggon in a fog, having my whole team down in slippery weather; on many occasions I have had a wheel come off, but still ...
— Hints on Driving • C. S. Ward
... The casualty lists just before we left were so dreadful that I am rather dreading the moment when we ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer


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