'Casualty' definitions:
Definition of 'casualty'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
noun
Someone injured or killed in an accident [syn: casualty, injured party]
noun
An accident that causes someone to die [syn: fatal accident, casualty]
noun
A decrease of military personnel or equipment
Definition of 'Casualty'
From: GCIDE
- Casualty \Cas"u*al*ty\, n.; pl. Casualties. [F. casualit['e], LL. casualitas.]
- 1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. [1913 Webster]
- Losses that befall them by mere casualty. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. [1913 Webster]
- Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident.
- Syn: Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'casualty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accident,
- adventure,
- blow,
- body count,
- calamity,
- casualties,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- chance hit,
- collision,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- contretemps,
- crack-up,
- crash,
- dead,
- death,
- disaster,
- fatal,
- fatal accident,
- fatalities,
- fatality,
- fluke,
- fortuity,
- freak accident,
- grief,
- hap,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hazard,
- ill hap,
- injured,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- lucky shot,
- misadventure,
- mischance,
- misfortune,
- mishap,
- missing,
- nasty blow,
- pileup,
- prey,
- shipwreck,
- shock,
- smash,
- smashup,
- staggering blow,
- statistic,
- tragedy,
- underdog,
- victim,
- violent death,
- wounded,
- wreck