Casualty vs. Accident

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.