loss of life
Mortality's grim toll
Loss of life refers to death, especially deaths resulting from accidents, disasters, conflicts, or other catastrophic events.
The phrase typically appears in formal or official contexts and often implies multiple fatalities: The earthquake caused significant loss of life.
It serves as a somewhat euphemistic way to discuss death at scale, avoiding more direct terms like "deaths" or "people killed."
- death tollTotal fatalities counted
- fatalitiesLosses of life
- mass casualtyEvent harming many simultaneously
- graveSerious and worrying
- dyingCeasing to live
grief · mourning · bereavement · humanitarian crisis · natural disaster · corpse · mortality · human cost · fallen soldiers · casualties · accidental death · disaster · collateral damage · end · homicide · famine · epidemic · tragic accident
- Maritime Disastersshipwreck, sinking, capsizing, foundering, drowning
- hurricaneshurricane, tropical cyclone, Andrew, Katrina, eyewall
- floodingmonsoon, flash flood, flood damage, flood zone, river flood
loss of lifesurvival
Remaining alive against odds
preservation of life · living · staying alive · being alive · life preservation
loss of liferescue
Save from harm
lifesaving · survival · recovery · deliverance · salvation
life, lost, loss, losing, lifeless, lifetime, lives, lifestyle, losses