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casualty

noun as in accident

noun as in victim

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There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the aftershock.

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Footage aired on Al Jazeera showed Palestinian casualties being taken on stretchers in ambulances Saturday morning.

Lake Superior’s first known commercial casualty, in 1816, was a schooner with a name that suggests hubris: the Invincible.

Online communication has already caused its first casualty among traditional postal services: Denmark recently ended its letter deliveries service, PostNord.

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In a statement, al-Shabab said it released "all the Muslim prisoners" from the facility and inflicted heavy casualties on those guarding the centre.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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