casualties
USKAZH-oo-uhl-teez/ˈkæʒu.əltiz/UKKAZH-uu-uhl-teez/ˈkaʒʊ.əltiz/
- 1Plural of casualty.
The battle left thousands of casualties on both sides.
Emergency teams worked through the night to evacuate the casualties.
Note
Like other nouns ending in a consonant plus y, casualty swaps its y for ies in the plural. The word covers more ground than many readers expect: casualties include the injured as well as the dead, and narrowing it to mean only fatalities is frowned on. In military counts it stretches further still, taking in soldiers lost to illness, capture or desertion.
casualties is a form of casualty
casualty, noun: A person who has been injured or killed as a result of an accident or an act of violence. Full entry
- Forms
- casualtycasualties plural
- Spelling
- casualty → casualties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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