Casualty and Want

Casualty

Casualty noun - A person or thing harmed, lost, or destroyed.

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

Nearby Words: casual, casually

Want noun - The fact or state of being absent.

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Casualty and want are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Casualty" instead a noun "Want".

Nearby Words: wanting, wanted

good	good casualty	good want
original	original casualty	original want
friendly	friendly casualty	friendly want
actual	actual casualty	actual want
Other adjectives: real, big, horrible, last.

It's quite questionable why people want to become an Island Guard with the high casualty rates.

Source: Redshirt Army
The Powers That Be have decided that everyone must take a side in the fight over the Book, and they are willing to let reality itself become a casualty over what they want reality to mean.

Source: Literature / The Book of All Hours
One (who drops it) asks if the other has seen the casualty statistics on last year's class, and the other (who takes the exam and prevails) replies that he doesn't want to see them.

Source: Never Tell Me the Odds

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