Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
1756, Samuel Johnson, “The Life of Sir Thomas Browne” in Thomas Browne, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, p. xx,[https://archive.org/details/christianmorals01browgoog]
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A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
: The course of his education was like that of others, such as put him little in the way of extraordinary casualties.
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(proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
Today, the pocket calculator is a dying product, a casualty of digitization, which has been relegated to the role of a graphic icon on phone and computer screens rather than an object in its own right, but back in the early 1970s, it was…
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