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casualty
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[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
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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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