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▸ noun: A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
▸ noun: (proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
▸ noun: (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
▸ noun: An incidental charge or payment.
▸ noun: Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
▸ noun: (British) Clipping of casualty department: the accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment. [(British) (also casualty ward) the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.]
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injured party,
fatal accident,
accident,
misfortune,
malaccident,
one of those things,
mischance,
haphazard,
bad luck,
disaster,
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