Casualty and Tragedy

Casualty

Casualty noun - A chance and usually sudden event bringing loss or injury.
Usage example: casualties at sea that sometimes resulted in great losses of men or even of entire ships

Tragedy and casualty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tragedy" instead a noun "Casualty".

Nearby Words: casual, casually

Tragedy

Tragedy noun - A sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction.
Usage example: the earthquake was only the latest in a series of tragedies for the city

Casualty and tragedy are semantically related. You can use "Casualty" instead a noun "Tragedy".

Nearby Word: tragedian

How words are described

human human casualty human tragedy
high high casualty high tragedy
original original casualty original tragedy
single single casualty single tragedy
Other adjectives: actual, real, big, serious, unfortunate, horrible, major, final, further, latest, recent, biggest.
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