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же́ртва — meaning in English

zhertva

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English meaning

  • casualty noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
  • immolation noun The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
  • kill verb To cause the death of a person, animal, or living thing.
  • prey noun An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.
  • sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
  • toll noun A fee charged for using a road, bridge, or similar route.
  • victim noun A person who is harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, disease, or other misfortune.

Senses

же́ртва is used for these senses in English:

  • casualty (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
  • immolation That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
  • kill The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • prey (archaic) The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • sacrifice A human being or an animal, or a physical object or immaterial thing (see sense 1.3), offered to a deity.
  • toll Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  • victim One who is harmed or killed as a result of other people's biases, emotions or incompetence, or their own.
  • victim One who is harmed or killed as a result of a natural or man-made disaster or impersonal condition.

casualty — full definition

  1. noun Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster.
  2. noun A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence.
  3. noun Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality.
  4. noun A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).

immolation — full definition

  1. noun The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated.
  2. noun That which is immolated; a sacrifice.
  3. noun The act of maliciously burning a person.

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