Someone injured or killed in an accident

Usage examples of casualty.

He roughly pushed Adelaide and Prickles around the fallen picket, and shoved them in through the cracked glass doors of the casualty department.

Angarak atrocities, their archery improved to the point that no place in the horde was truly safe from Asturian arrows, and Kal Torak of Mallorea took horrid casualties as he marched west toward Vo Mimbre.

The number of casualties unsettled Batu, for the heavy losses reflected too well on the accuracy of the enemy bowmen.

Wounded blackcoats were being helped into the castle while the orange soldiers dragged their own casualties down to a camp under the edge of a wood.

The German bombing accuracy was poor and their bombs often fell into civilian areas and many casualties occurred there.

If McGarvey chose not to cooperate or, as Carrara had warned, if he were taken by surprise, there would be casualties.

If a large-scale attack resulted in mass casualties, the first choices would be doxycycline and ciprofloxacin, taken orally, for both adults and children.

If there were a mass casualty, ciprofloxacin would be the drug of first choice for pregnant women.

United States would be unwilling to tolerate high costs, and particularly heavy casualties, to liberate Kuwait.

He quickly granted permission to counterflood as necessary to take the list off the ship and frowned at news of the heavy casualties in Repair Two.

During the gales here at Yokohama a merchantman had been blown ashore, some buildings damaged, many cutters and fishing boats lost, havoc wrought in the village and Yoshiwara, many tents in the military encampment on the bluff blown away but no casualties there, or in the Settlement.

Fitz was suddenly surrounded by a mad rush of activity: doctors pulling out carts of instruments, preparing beds, getting ready for casualties.

The only casualties had been, unfortunately, Marco Galliani and his bronze dragon, Duluth, who had collided with a sled.

The GIs, moving into Nijmegen and Eindhoven and their other objectives, started taking casualties.

Twenty percent casualties were too damned many so soon after Elysium, even if they had secured every one of their objectives this time.