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16 Aug 2015
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What is the difference between casualty and calamity ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between casualty and calamity ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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I think the most common usage of “casualty” is to describe an injured / killed person, especially in the army. “Calamity” could not be said about a person, since it’s force majeure — a great catastrophe, a cataclysm.
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Casualty - Results in death
Calamity - Results in disaster
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