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Meanings of
first casualty
in English
Catalan
primera víctima mortal
Back to the meaning
First person to die while a given event happens.
first victim
first death
first fatality
Catalan
primera víctima mortal
Synonyms
Examples for "
first victim
"
first victim
first death
first fatality
Examples for "
first victim
"
1
Canadian national Chrissy Archibald, 30, was the
first
victim
to be named.
2
The
first
victim
of starvation, Baylis Williams, died in the Reed cabin.
3
Henry MacNair was the
first
victim
,
and had had the most struggle.
4
The
first
victim
to be named was Gary Arthur, 48, of Paisley.
5
The chief leader of French Protestantism, Coligny, had been the
first
victim
.
1
The
first
death
was exactly a year later, that of Clara Gray.
2
This
first
death
is an exploration, a way of learning the truth.
3
That Thursday, March 5, the
first
death
in the UK was announced.
4
There is but our
first
death
,
neither shall we be raised again:
5
Sidney saw her
first
death
shortly after she went on night duty.
1
Jackie Duddy was the youngest and the
first
fatality
on Bloody Sunday.
2
She was the
first
fatality
in Japan, and the third outside mainland China.
3
Hours before demonstrations even started on Friday, the
first
fatality
occurred.
4
Papua New Guinea's polio outbreak has claimed its
first
fatality
.
5
The
first
fatality
happened in Wexford at 11pm last night.
Usage of
first casualty
in English
1
In the case of Iraq, the United Nations was the
first
casualty
.
2
Also, code review seems to be the
first
casualty
of deadline crunch.
3
Upstream spending plans have been the
first
casualty
of the market's rout.
4
IF TRUTH is the
first
casualty
of war, surely children are the second.
5
Truth is the
first
casualty
in war, but the same applies to politics.
6
In war, according to the cliché, truth is the
first
casualty
.
7
If football is proxy war, then truth is the
first
casualty
.
8
In the fog of war truth has been, as ever, the
first
casualty
.
9
His own family was the
first
casualty
of Laing's increasing celebrity.
10
If that is what happened, she will not have been breatharianism's
first
casualty
.
11
US isolationism has been the
first
casualty
of this activist whirlwind.
12
The
first
casualty
was the hated Office of Indian Affairs itself.
13
Samir Nasri is set to become the
first
casualty
of Pep's fat camp.
14
In war, it is said, the
first
casualty
is truth.
15
And in a moment occurred the
first
casualty
-
most
grave
of a series of casualties.
16
An oil field in Taranaki may be the
first
casualty
of falling petrol prices.
Other examples for "first casualty"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
first
casualty
first
Adjective
Noun
Translations for
first casualty
Catalan
primera víctima mortal
First casualty
through the time
First casualty
across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Less common
United Kingdom
Rare