Definitions for casualties

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casualties cas·u·al·ty

Spelling: [kazh-oo-uh l-tee]

IPA: /ˈkæʒ u əl ti/

Casualties is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 670 anagrams from letters in casualties (aaceilsstu).

Definitions for casualties

noun

1. Military. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, capture, or because his or her whereabouts or condition cannot be determined. casualties, loss in numerical strength through any cause, as death, wounds, sickness, capture, or desertion.
2. one who is injured or killed in an accident:
3. any person, group, thing, etc., that is harmed or destroyed as a result of some act or event:
4. a serious accident, especially one involving bodily injury or death.

Origin of casualties

1375-1425; casual + -ty²; replacing late Middle English casuelte, equivalent to casuel (see casual) + -

Examples for casualties

PKK sources say they suffered no casualties—they insist there was also an artillery bombardment on their bases.

In the last half dozen years there had not been three casualties.

Add the fighting before that, and the American casualties came to over 62,000.

On the Union side the casualties were one killed, and two wounded.

Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

By this time, however, the casualties had ceased to excite attention; they were too numerous.

Yet they were subject to a raking fire that cost them hundreds of casualties.

Like Cohen, many of these casualties were white Democrats from below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Among the casualties with the most dangerous implications for their future is education.

Their casualties were reported as three killed and twelve wounded.