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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

accident, adventure, blow, body count, calamity, casualties, cataclysm, catastrophe, chance hit, collision, contingency, contingent, contretemps, crack-up, crash, dead, death, disaster, fatal, fatal accident, fatalities, fatality, fluke, fortuity, freak accident, grief, hap, happening, happenstance, hazard, ill hap, injured, long odds, long shot, lucky shot, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, missing, nasty blow, pileup, prey, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, statistic, tragedy, underdog, victim, violent death, wounded, wreck

Dictionary Results for casualty:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

casualty
    n 1: someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a
         military engagement
    2: someone injured or killed in an accident [syn: casualty,
       injured party]
    3: an accident that causes someone to die [syn: fatal
       accident, casualty]
    4: a decrease of military personnel or equipment

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Casualty \Cas"u*al*ty\, n.; pl. Casualties. [F. casualit['e],
   LL. casualitas.]
   1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen;
      contingency.
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            Losses that befall them by mere casualty. --Sir W.
                                                  Raleigh.
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   2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or
      other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an
      unhappy casualty.
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   3. pl. (Mil. & Naval) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds,
      discharge, or desertion.
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   Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the
      treatment of injuries received by accident.

   Syn: Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune.
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