CASUALTY

n. 1 disaster, catastrophe, calamity, accident, mischance, misadventure, mishap The company insures against casualties at sea 2 a victim, fatality, Colloq statistic I'm afraid that Jeff was a casualty of last year's cut in personnel She was only one of thousands of casualties of the earthquake. b Usually, casualties. Chiefly military wounded, injured, missing, missing in action, dead, fatalities, US MIA(s), body count The casualties were mounting