casualty
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[change]- (countable) A casualty is a person who has been hurt, even killed, in an accident, or an act of violence.
- The only casualty in the bus crash was an old man who broke his arm.
- (uncountable) (medicine) The casualty department of a hospital is where people who have been hurt are first taken for medical treatment.
- Casualty was crowded with injured people after the accident.