Noun:

காயம் பட்டவன், காயம் பட்டவள்,

casualties's Usage Examples:

guns could have been turned on to the beaches, of which the range was exactly known, and embarkation, impeded as it was by the rough water, could hardly have been carried out without many casualties.

The casualties from shell-fire had been few, but those from sickness were very heavy.

The garrison, though already weakened by privation and sickness, made a stubborn resistance, and after one of the fiercest engagements of the war, repulsed the attack at Caesar's Camp and Wagon Hill with severe loss to the enemy, itself having 500 casualties.

For instance, he asserts the number of the Sabine virgins to have been exactly 527; again, in a certain year when no Greek or Latin writers mention any important campaign, Antias speaks of a big battle with enormous casualties.

The sad fact is that the American hostages in Iraq were forgotten casualties of war.

By the end of 1996 well over 10,000 people had become casualties mostly to bomblets of which nearly 2,500 became amputees.

At the cost of only Boa casualties it had penetrated some 31 m.

The casualties in the hard-fought battle of Ligny were very heavy.

P Y of risk, it has during recent years come to notice that the number of casualties among railway servants is still unduly great, and in 1899 a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the causes of the numerous accidents, fatal and nonfatal, to railway men.

In World War II, even more battles had a million casualties each.

The captures of the corps came to over 4,000 prisoners and 87 guns; the attacking strength of the Australians was less than 6,000 and the casualties were just over r,000 in all.

On the night of the 23rd-24th, just as the assault was being renewed, Stessel delivered a fierce counter-attack against the lost positions, and the result of an all-night battle was that though the forts were not recaptured, the assault was repulsed with over 5000 casualties, and the Japanese in Pan-Lung were isolated.

Synonyms:

victim, injured party,

Antonyms:

maximise, maximize, escalate,