casualty

Noun

Meaning

That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

emergency accident misfortune contingency injured party fatal accident ICU gopher grim reaper death loss necrosis damage dead chance

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Antonyms

jean piranha comet goon strangler liquidator

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Hypernyms

decrease accident fatality lessening victim drop off

Hyponyms

loss damage collateral damage personnel casualty equipment casualty

Phrases with the word

casualty insurance casualty notification casualty rate unavoidable casualty fatal casualty casualty figures

Derivatives

casualties

Examples

In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War. Al Capone

The first casualty when war comes is truth. Hiram Johnson

Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly. Candice Bergen

It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. L. Neil Smith

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. George C. Marshall

Close letter words and terms

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