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поте́ря — meaning in English

poterya

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English meaning

  • bereavement noun The experience of losing a close family member or friend to death, and the grief that follows.
  • casualty noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
  • dissipation noun The process of scattering or spreading something out until it disappears, or the waste this causes.
  • loss noun The state of no longer having something you once had.
  • toll noun A fee charged for using a road, bridge, or similar route.

Senses

поте́ря is used for these senses in English:

  • bereavement The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.
  • casualty (military) A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion).
  • dissipation (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.
  • loss (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
  • loss (uncountable) The destruction or ruin of an object.
  • loss (countable) The death of a person or animal.
  • loss (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
  • loss (engineering) Electricity of kinetic power expended without doing useful work.

casualty — full definition

  1. noun An unlucky event that occurs unexpectedly, such as an accident or disaster.
  2. noun A person who has been hurt or killed in an accident or through violence.
  3. noun A person who has died, rather than just been injured, in an accident or through violence; a fatality.
  4. noun A member of the armed forces who becomes unable to serve, for reasons such as death, injury, illness, being captured or deserting.
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