Casualty vs. Death

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

Deathnoun

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

Deathnoun

The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

Deathnoun

(the death) The collapse or end of something.

Deathnoun

(figuratively, esp. followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

Deathnoun

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Deathnoun

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Deathnoun

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Deathnoun

Cause of loss of life.

Deathnoun

Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Deathnoun

Danger of death.

Deathnoun

Murder; murderous character.

Deathnoun

Loss of spiritual life.

Deathnoun

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Deathnoun

the event of dying or departure from life;

Deathnoun

the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism;

Deathnoun

the time at which life ends; continuing until dead;

Deathnoun

the personification of death;

Deathnoun

the absence of life or state of being dead;

Deathnoun

the time when something ends;

Deathnoun

the act of killing;

Deathnoun

a final state;

Death

Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death.