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casualty
[ kazh-oo-uhl-tee ]
noun
- Military.
- a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because their whereabouts or condition cannot be determined.
- casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
- one who is injured or killed in an accident:
There were no casualties in the traffic accident.
- any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event:
Their house was a casualty of the fire.
- a serious accident, especially one involving bodily injury or death.
casualty
/ ˈæʊəɪ /
noun
- a serviceman who is killed, wounded, captured, or missing as a result of enemy action
- a person who is injured or killed in an accident
- a hospital department in which victims of accidents, violence, etc, are treated
- anything that is lost, damaged, or destroyed as the result of an accident, etc
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Example Sentences
There have been no immediate reports of casualties or wider damage, but Istanbul officials said they were checking buildings and warned people to stay clear of potentially-damaged sites.
"It seems like they're actually updating the lists more in real time, as more information appears," says Professor Mike Spagat of Royal Holloway College, chair of Every Casualty Counts, an independent civilian casualty monitoring organisation.
It added that there had been no casualties.
The IDF said its investigation found six of the casualties were Hamas members, and rejected there had been summary executions.
Healthcare in the Gaza Strip is itself a casualty of 18 months of war between Israel and Hamas.
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