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casualty
Noun
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A casualty is a person who has been hurt, even killed, in an accident, or an act of violence.
The only casualty in the bus crash was an old man who broke his arm.
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The casualty department of a hospital is where people who have been hurt are first taken for medical treatment.
Casualty was crowded with injured people after the accident.
ward
Noun
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A ward is an area in a hospital that focused on one kind of medicine.
We visited them in the hospital's children's ward.
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A ward is an area of a city.
The lower ninth ward of New Orleans was destroyed by the flood.
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A ward is someone, usually a child, who is under the legal care of someone else.
ward
Verb
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If you ward off something bad, you do something to keep it away.