A termination of life, usually as the result of an accident or a disaster

• casualty

  1. (Mil.) A member of the armed forces who is lost to active service through being killed, wounded, captured, interned, sick, or missing
  2. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
  3. Losses of personnel resulting from death, injury, etc.

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  1. (Mil.) A member of the armed forces who is lost to active service through being killed, wounded, captured, interned, sick, or missing
  2. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.
  3. Losses of personnel resulting from death, injury, etc.

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• death

  1. The end of life; the permanent cessation of vital bodily functions, as manifested in humans by the loss of heartbeat, the absence of spontaneous breathing, and brain death.
  2. (Law) Civil death.
  3. A manner of dying:

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  1. The end of life; the permanent cessation of vital bodily functions, as manifested in humans by the loss of heartbeat, the absence of spontaneous breathing, and brain death.
  2. (Law) Civil death.
  3. A manner of dying:

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The quality or condition of causing death

• deadliness

  1. The degree to which a thing is deadly.
  2. The quality of being deadly.

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  1. The degree to which a thing is deadly.
  2. The quality of being deadly.

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• lethality

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Mortality

• deadliness

  1. The degree to which a thing is deadly.
  2. Tedium, or the quality of being boring

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  1. The degree to which a thing is deadly.
  2. Tedium, or the quality of being boring

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• virulence

  1. The quality of being virulent, or very poisonous, noxious, malignant, etc.
  2. The state of being virulent
  3. The relative infectiousness of a microorganism causing disease

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  1. The quality of being virulent, or very poisonous, noxious, malignant, etc.
  2. The state of being virulent
  3. The relative infectiousness of a microorganism causing disease

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• lethality

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• poisonousness

  1. The state or quality of being poisonous.

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  1. The state or quality of being poisonous.

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• destructiveness

  1. The state or quality of being destructive

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  1. The state or quality of being destructive

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• inevitability

  1. (Countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.

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  1. (Countable) An inevitable condition or outcome.

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• necrosis

  1. The death or decay of tissue in a particular part of the body, as from loss of blood supply, burning, etc.
  2. Death of cells through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of a tissue or organ.

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  1. The death or decay of tissue in a particular part of the body, as from loss of blood supply, burning, etc.
  2. Death of cells through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of a tissue or organ.

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A death

• casualty

  1. Losses of personnel resulting from death, injury, etc.
  2. Anyone hurt or killed in an accident
  3. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.

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  1. Losses of personnel resulting from death, injury, etc.
  2. Anyone hurt or killed in an accident
  3. An accident, especially one involving serious injury or loss of life.

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• dying

  1. A ceasing to live or exist; death

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  1. A ceasing to live or exist; death

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• accident

  1. (Law) An unforeseen event that occurs without anyone's fault or negligence
  2. An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause:
  3. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm:

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  1. (Law) An unforeseen event that occurs without anyone's fault or negligence
  2. An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause:
  3. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm:

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