Victim vs. Casualty
Victimnoun
One that is harmed—killed, injured, subjected to oppression, deceived, or otherwise adversely affected—by someone or something, especially another person or event, force, or condition; in particular:
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One who is harmed or killed by a crime or scam.
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One who is harmed or killed by an accident or illness.
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One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
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One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.
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A living being which is slain and offered as a sacrifice, usually in a religious rite.
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The transfigured body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
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A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
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A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of an object, or in gratification of a passion; as, a victim to jealousy, lust, or ambition.
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A person or living creature destroyed by, or suffering grievous injury from, another, from fortune or from accident; as, the victim of a defaulter; the victim of a railroad accident.
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Hence, one who is duped, or cheated; a dupe; a gull.
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an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
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a person who is tricked or swindled
Casualtynoun
(obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
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Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
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A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
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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.
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(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
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(British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital.
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That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
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Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
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Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
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someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
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someone injured or killed in an accident
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an accident that causes someone to die
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a decrease of military personnel or equipment
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a person killed or injured in a war or accident
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a person or thing badly affected by an event or situation
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the department of a hospital providing immediate treatment for emergency cases.
Casualtynoun
(chiefly in insurance) an accident or disaster
