Casualtynoun
(obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
Casualtynoun
Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
Casualtynoun
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
Casualtynoun
(proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
Casualtynoun
(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
Casualtynoun
(British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
Casualtynoun
That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Casualtynoun
Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Casualtynoun
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
Casualtynoun
someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
Casualtynoun
someone injured or killed in an accident
Casualtynoun
an accident that causes someone to die
Casualtynoun
a decrease of military personnel or equipment
Casualtynoun
a person killed or injured in a war or accident
Casualtynoun
a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation
Casualtynoun
the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.
Casualtynoun
(chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster
Accidentnoun
An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences.
Accidentnoun
Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.
Accidentnoun
Any chance event.
Accidentnoun
(uncountable) Chance.
Accidentnoun
Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential.
Accidentnoun
(euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
Accidentnoun
(euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
Accidentnoun
A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.
Accidentnoun
(grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
Accidentnoun
(geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
Accidentnoun
(heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Accidentnoun
(legal) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
Accidentnoun
Appearance, manifestation.
Accidentnoun
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.
Accidentnoun
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.
Accidentnoun
A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
Accidentnoun
A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.
Accidentnoun
Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.
Accidentnoun
Unusual appearance or effect.
Accidentnoun
a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
Accidentnoun
anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
Accidentnoun
an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury
Accidentnoun
a crash involving road or other vehicles
Accidentnoun
an incidence of incontinence by a child or animal
Accidentnoun
an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause
Accidentnoun
the working of fortune; chance
Accidentnoun
(in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
Accident
An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term accident implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks.