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casualty noun [ ˈkaʒjʊəlti ]

• a person killed or injured in a war or accident.
• "the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties"
Similar: victim, fatality, mortality, loss, MIA, dead and injured/wounded, missing in action, missing,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘chance, a chance occurrence’): from medieval Latin casualitas, from casualis (see casual), on the pattern of words such as penalty .


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