| Casualty 1. (n.) An accident involving serious injury or loss of life; as a casualty of war; that which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. 2. (n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. 3. (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Thesaurus Entries 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 |