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ca·su·al·ty

(kăzh′o͞o-əl-tē)

n. pl. ca·su·al·ties

a. One who is injured or killed in an accident: a train wreck with many casualties.

b. One who is injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy: Battlefield casualties were high.

2. One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or circumstance: The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.

3. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.

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

Usage Note: In military usage, a casualty is a serviceperson who has been killed, injured, captured, or in some other way rendered unable to serve. When used in nonmilitary situations, such as newspaper reports about accidents, the word casualty is usually used to mean a person who is either killed or injured. Sometimes, however, people use casualties to refer only to individuals who have died, not to those who have been injured. This usage is often considered an error. In our 2013 survey, 60 percent of the Usage Panel disapproved of a sentence where casualties was used to mean "fatalities" only: Officials have reported 21 casualties from yesterday's earthquake. In addition to those fatalities, 79 people were seriously injured.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

casualty

(ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ)

n, pl -ties

1. (Military) a serviceman or servicewoman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action

2. a person who is injured or killed in an accident

3. (Medicine) a hospital department in which victims of accidents, violence, etc, are treated

4. anything that is lost, damaged, or destroyed as the result of an accident, etc

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cas•u•al•ty

(ˈkæʒ u əl ti)

n., pl. -ties.

1. Mil.

a. a member of the armed forces removed from service by death, wounds, sickness, etc.

b. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause.

2. one who is injured or killed in an accident.

3. any person or thing that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event.

4. a serious accident, esp. one involving bodily injury or death.

[1375–1425]

casualty

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.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

casualty

a chance happening. See also injury.

victim

– casualty

1. 'victim'

You refer to someone as a victim when they have suffered as the result of a crime or natural disaster.

They offered financial aid for flood victims.

We have been the victims of a terrible crime.

2. 'casualty'

You don't usually use 'victim' to refer to someone who has been injured or killed in a war or accident. The word you use is casualty.

There were heavy casualties on both sides.

The casualties were taken to the nearest hospital.

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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"

casualty

noun

1. fatality, death, loss, wounded Troops fired on the demonstrators, causing many casualties.

2. victim, sufferer The company has been one of the greatest casualties of the recession.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

casualty

noun

1. An unexpected and usually undesirable event:

accident, contretemps, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap.

2. One that is made to suffer injury, loss, or death:

prey, victim.

3. A termination of life, usually as the result of an accident or a disaster:

death, fatality.

Translations

إِصابَةٌ مُميتَةٌ، قَتْيلمُصَاب

oběť

en såretoffertilskadekommen

Opfer Todesopfer Tote Unfall Verunglückter

θύμα

baja víctima

kuolonuhriuhri

victime accidenté

žrtva

morto vittima ferito incidente infortunio

死傷者

사상자

aukasužeistasistraumatologijos skyriusžuvusysis

kritušaisnelaimes gadījumā cietušais

slachtoffer

forulykket offer såret eller drept person

ofiara wypadku

vítima de acidente

жертва потеря

izguba

olycksfall

จำนวนคนเสียชีวิตหรือได้รับบาดเจ็บ

zayiat

người bị giết, bị thương

伤亡伤亡者

casualty

[ˈkæʒjʊəltɪ]

A. N

1. (Mil) (dead) → baja f; (wounded) → herido/a m/f
there were heavy casualties → hubo muchas bajas

2. (in accident, dead) → víctima f; (wounded) → herido/a m/f
Casualty (= hospital department) → Urgencias
fortunately there were no casualties → por fortuna no hubo víctimas or heridos

3. (fig) a casualty of modern society → una víctima de la sociedad moderna

B. CPD casualty department N → (servicio m de) urgencias fpl
casualty list N (Mil) → lista f de bajas; (in accident) → lista f de víctimas
casualty ward N → sala f de urgencias

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

casualty

[ˈkæʒuəlti] n

(= injured person) → accidenté(e) m/f, blessé(e) m/f

(= dead person) → victime f, mort(e) m/f

(fig) (= victim) to be a casualty of sth (= suffer as a result of) → être la victime de qch

casualties (= losses) heavy casualties → lourdes pertes
to suffer heavy casualties (in battle) → essuyer de lourdes pertes

Casualty

casualty [ˈkæʒuəlti] n (British) → urgences fpl, service m des urgencescasualty department n (British) → service m des urgencescasualty ward n (British) → salle f des urgences

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

casualty

(lit, fig) → Opfer nt; (injured also) → Verletzte(r) mf; (killed also) → Tote(r) mf; were there many casualties? → gab es viele Opfer?; (Mil) → gab es hohe Verluste?

(also casualty unit) → Notaufnahme f; to go to casualty → in die Notaufnahme gehen; to be in casualty → in der Notaufnahme sein

casualty

casualty department

n (in hospital) → Notaufnahme f, → Unfallstation f

casualty list

n → Verlustliste f

casualty ward

n → Unfallstation f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

casualty

[ˈkæʒjʊltɪ] n (Mil) (dead) → vittima, morto, caduto; (wounded) → ferito; (in accident, dead) → vittima; (injured) → ferito
heavy casualties → grosse perdite fpl

casualty

(ˈkӕʒuəlti) – plural ˈcasualties – noun

a person who is wounded or killed in a battle, accident etc. There were hundreds of casualties when the factory went on fire.

casualty department

a hospital department for treating accidental injuries.

casualty

→ مُصَاب oběť en såret Verunglückter θύμα víctima kuolonuhri accidenté žrtva morto 死傷者 사상자 slachtoffer forulykket ofiara wypadku vítima de acidente жертва olycksfall จำนวนคนเสียชีวิตหรือได้รับบาดเจ็บ zayiat người bị giết, bị thương 伤亡

ca·su·al·ty

n. víctima de accidente, herido, muerto; [war] bajas.

[wounded] herido-a;

___ list → lista de accidentados.

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The dressers took this in turn; it lasted three days, during which they lived in hospital and ate their meals in the common-room; they had a room on the ground floor near the casualty ward, with a bed that shut up during the day into a cupboard.

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For it had not been very long prior to the Pequod's sailing from Nantucket, that he had been found one night lying prone upon the ground, and insensible; by some unknown, and seemingly inexplicable, unimaginable casualty, his ivory limb having been so violently displaced, that it had stake-wise smitten, and all but pierced his groin; nor was it without extreme difficulty that the agonizing wound was entirely cured.

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When the matron HOUYHNHNMS have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant.

Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, if a HOUYHNHNM has two males, he changes one of them with another that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.

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He was, therefore, to put in as if by casualty or distress, to give himself out as a coasting trader, and to say nothing about his ship being owned by Mr.

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We owe it to mere casualty, that very serious embarrassments on this subject have been hitherto escaped.

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Here, in the mid-morning, the first casualty occurred.

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