Noun
the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster
Source: WordNetThe death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped. Christopher Hitchens
We need a Nuremberg to put on trial the economic order that they have imposed on us, that every three years kills more men, women and children by hunger and preventable or curable diseases than the death toll in six years of the second world war. Fidel Castro
Increasing freedom in the world decreases the death toll of its wars. Surely, whatever reduces and then finally ends the scourge of war in our history, without causing a greater evil, must be the greatest moral good. And this is freedom. Rudolph Rummel
A 40-year-old woman from Kandivali in Mumbai and a 45-year-old man from Buldhana became the latest casualties of COVID-19 on Sunday, taking the State’s death toll to eight. Source: Internet
According to Reuters, Spain’s daily coronavirus death toll fell for the third day in a row. Source: Internet
According to the latest figures early Thursday, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in China jumped by 3,694 to 28,018, and the death toll rose to 563. The number of those "discharged and cured" stood at 1,153. Source: Internet