casualties

casualties
fatalities, losses; dead, wounded, dead and wounded, missing in action.
2. victim, sufferer; unfortunate, poor unfortunate, wretch, miserable wretch, poor devil; loser, prey, fortune's fool.
3. accident, mishap, mischance, misfortune, misadventure, miscarriage, Scot, and North Eng. mishanter, glitch; shock, blow, nasty or staggering or heavy blow, buffet, stroke, fell stroke, stroke of bad or ill luck or fortune.
4. wreck, shipwreck; crash, car crash, plane crash; collision, smash-up, pile-up.
5. fluke, freak accident, one in a million, twist of fate; fortuity, happening, hap, hazard.

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