n, pl  -ties  1  :  a serious or fatal accident  2  :  a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action  3 a  :  injury or death from accident  b  :  one injured or killed (as by accident) .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  case·load 
 
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