casualtynoun
uk/ˈkæʒ.ju.əl.ti/us/ˈkæʒ.ju.əl.ti/casualty noun (INJURED)
C2 [ C ] a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war:
The train was derailed but there were no casualties, police said.
The rebels suffered heavy casualties.
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- The number of casualties in both wars was appallingly high.
- Hospitals are on standby ready to deal with casualties being flown in from the crash site.
- They were warned to expect a heavy air attack and therefore many casualties.
- George was a casualty in that nasty motorway pile-up last year.
- So far, only one casualty has been rescued from the scene of the explosion.
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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Medical treatment: people who receive medical treatment
casualty noun (BADLY AFFECTED)
[ C ] a person or thing that suffers as a result of something else happening:
She lost her job in 2011, a casualty of the recession.
The first casualty of the reorganization will be the bus service, which will be stopped altogether.
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Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- sample
- seat
- sense
- undergo
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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casualty noun (HOSPITAL)
C2 [ U ] UK US emergency room the part of a hospital where people who are hurt in accidents or suddenly become ill are taken for urgent treatment:
She had to be rushed to casualty.
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Medical places & organizations
- A & E
- asylum
- detoxification centre
- ear, nose, and throat
- emergency room
- ENT
- er
- Harley Street
- health maintenance organization
- intensive care
- lunatic asylum
- madhouse
- Medicare
- mental hospital
- operating room
- outpatients
- sanitarium
- surgery
- the funny farm
- theatre
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