death toll

death toll

English

Noun

death toll (plural death tolls)

1. The number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident.
   • 1866, John Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine, page 232:

     Food, clothing, bedding, and fire, were supplied in sufficient proportions to maintain life and health; and the three years of severe suffering passed over the cotton districts without any sensible increase of disease, and without increasing the frequency of the death toll.

   • 2011, Angela Mason, Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:

     Fascinated by the fact that the death toll of this singular storm was the fifth highest on record as regards overall effects/death tolls for a natural disaster in the United States in the 20th century […]

Translations

the number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 死亡人數 (zh), 死亡人数 (zh) (sǐwáng rénshù), 死者數, 死者数 (sǐzhěshù) Danish: dødstal n Finnish: kuolonuhrien määrä, kuolleiden määrä German: Blutzoll (de) m, Zahl der Todesopfer f Hindi: please add this translation if you can Japanese: 死亡者数 (しぼうしゃすう, shibōsha-sū), 死者数 (ししゃすう, shisha-sū)

Korean: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: Bokmål: dødstall n Nynorsk: dødstal n Russian: число́ жертв n (čisló žertv), коли́чество поги́бших n (kolíčestvo pogíbšix), спи́сок уби́тых m (spísok ubítyx) (list of the killed) Spanish: número de víctimas m Swedish: dödssiffra c, antal döda n Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can