1. (n.) An accident involving serious injury or loss of life; as a casualty of war\; that which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency.

2. (n.) Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty.

3. (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion.

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