Definitions of casualty [ˈkæʒ u əl ti]

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Definition of 'casualty'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) casualty
Mil.

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

3.  casualty
casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause.

4.  casualty
one who is injured or killed in an accident.

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

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

Etymology: (1375–1425)

Definition of 'casualty'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) casualty
someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement

2. (noun) casualty, injured party
someone injured or killed in an accident

3. (noun) fatal accident, casualty
an accident that causes someone to die

4. (noun) casualty
a decrease of military personnel or equipment

Definition of 'casualty'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) casualty
sb killed or injured in a war or accident
The number of casualties is rising.

2. casualty
heavy casualties
many killed or injured

3. casualty
a casualty of sth
sb or sth affected badly by a situation
The company is the latest casualty of the banking crisis.

Definition of 'casualty'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) casualty
that which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency

2. (noun) casualty
any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty

3. (noun) casualty
numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion

Definition of 'casualty'

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

1. casualty
Any person who is lost to the organization by having been declared dead, duty status

Translation of 'casualty'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a person who is wounded or killed in a battle, accident etc There were hundreds of casualties when the factory went on fire.
Afrikaans: slagoffer, beseerde, dooi	Arabic: إِصابَةٌ مُميتَةٌ، قَتْيل	Bulgarian: жертва
Brazilian: baixa	Czech: oběť	German: das Opfer
Danish: såret; tilskadekommen; of	Greek: θύμα	Spanish: baja, víctima
Estonian: ohver	Farsi: کشته یا زخمی؛ تلفات	Finnish: uhri
French: victime	Hebrew: נִפְגַע	Hindi: हताहत, दुर्घटनाग्रस्त व्य
Croatian: nesreća, unesrećeni	Hungarian: sérült, áldozat	Indonesian: korban
Icelandic: slysatilfelli, maður sem	Italian: ferito; morto	Japanese: 死傷者
Korean: 사상자	Lithuanian: auka, sužeistasis, žuvusy	Latvian: nelaimes gadījumā cietuša
Malay: terbunuh atau tercedera	Dutch: gewonde, slachtoffer	Norwegian: offer; såret eller drept
Polish: ofiara (zabity lub ranny)	Persian: کشته یا زخمی؛ تلفات	Pashto: پېښه: په جګړه كې مرګ او ژ
Portuguese: baixa	Romanian: victimă	Russian: (случайно) пострадавший
Slovak: obeť	Slovenian: žrtev	Serbian: žrtva
Swedish: olycks-, krigsoffer, skad	Thai: จำนวนคนตายหรือได้รับบาดเจ	Turkish: zayiat
Taiwanese: 傷者或死者	Ukrainian: потерпілий від нещасного	Urdu: زخمی یا ہلاک ہونے والا شخ
Vietnamese: thương vong	Chinese: 伤亡者
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