Fatality vs. Casualty
Fatality and Casualty Definitions
Fatality
A death resulting from an accident or disaster
Highway fatalities.
Casualty
One who is injured or killed in an accident
A train wreck with many casualties.
Fatality
One who is killed as a result of such an occurrence
The driver was one of the fatalities.
Casualty
One who is injured, killed, captured, or missing in action through engagement with an enemy
Battlefield casualties were high.
Fatality
The ability to cause death or disaster.
Casualty
One that is harmed or eliminated as a result of an action or circumstance
The corner grocery was a casualty of the expanding supermarkets.
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Fatality
The quality of being determined by fate.
Casualty
An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
Fatality
A decree made by fate; destiny.
Casualty
Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
Fatality
The quality of being doomed to disaster.
Casualty
A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
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Fatality
The state proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. 17
Casualty
(proscribed) Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
Fatality
Tendency to death, destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate. 17
Casualty
(military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
Fatality
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. 18
Casualty
(British) The accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment; a casualty department or emergency room.
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Fatality
Death.
Casualty
An incidental charge or payment.
Fatality
An accident that causes death. 19
Casualty
Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation.
Fatality
A person killed.
Casualty
(obsolete) Chance nature; randomness.
Fatality
(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.
Casualty
That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.
Losses that befall them by mere casualty.
Fatality
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events.
Casualty
Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.
Fatality
The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality.
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting.
Casualty
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.
Fatality
That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.
Casualty
Someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
Fatality
A death resulting from an accident or a disaster;
A decrease in the number of automobile fatalities
Casualty
Someone injured or killed in an accident
Fatality
The quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
Casualty
An accident that causes someone to die
Casualty
A decrease of military personnel or equipment
