casualty

Definitions


[ˈkaʒ(j)ʊlti], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person killed or injured in a war or accident
(e.g: the shelling caused thousands of civilian casualties)


Phrases:

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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