What part of speech is casualties?

Casualties can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. casualties is a noun, plural of casualty.

Inflections

Noun

What does casualties mean?

Definitions

Noun

casualty - a decrease of military personnel or equipment
casualty - someone injured or killed or captured or missing in a military engagement
casualty - someone injured or killed in an accident
casualty - an accident that causes someone to die

Examples of casualties

#   Sentence  
1. noun Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
2. noun Not only is the army facing serious political fallout, growing anti-Americanism and anti-army feeling in the tribal areas but it is also taking heavy casualties -between 400-500 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the region since March.
3. noun The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
4. noun The result will be a dramatic escalation in US and civilian casualties, US forces will be required to bunker themselves further into their bases, and US forces will find themselves required to fight the very government they just finished helping into power.
5. noun The announcement exaggerated the number of casualties.
6. noun Casualties are said to total up to 1,000.
7. noun Numerous violent and sudden casualties among C++ developers are caused by segmentation faults every year.
8. noun After a battle casualties are usually heavy.
9. noun An unbreakable walnut in Bern has taken several casualties: 17 nutcrackers, 29 teeth, and a hammer.
10. noun They were, so to speak, casualties of war.
11. noun We can't afford any more casualties.
12. noun Casualties were inevitable.
13. noun The enemy suffered many casualties.
14. noun The Germans suffered more than 100 000 casualties during the Battle of the Bulge.
15. noun We've had a few casualties.
Sentence  
noun
Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
Not only is the army facing serious political fallout, growing anti-Americanism and anti-army feeling in the tribal areas but it is also taking heavy casualties -between 400-500 Pakistani soldiers have been killed in the region since March.
The total number of casualties from hundreds of suicide murders within Israel in the last three years is much smaller than those due to car accidents.
The result will be a dramatic escalation in US and civilian casualties, US forces will be required to bunker themselves further into their bases, and US forces will find themselves required to fight the very government they just finished helping into power.
The announcement exaggerated the number of casualties.
Casualties are said to total up to 1,000.
Numerous violent and sudden casualties among C++ developers are caused by segmentation faults every year.
After a battle casualties are usually heavy.
An unbreakable walnut in Bern has taken several casualties: 17 nutcrackers, 29 teeth, and a hammer.
They were, so to speak, casualties of war.
We can't afford any more casualties.
Casualties were inevitable.
The enemy suffered many casualties.
The Germans suffered more than 100 000 casualties during the Battle of the Bulge.
We've had a few casualties.

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