death toll (plural death tolls)
- The number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident.
1866, John Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine, page 232:Food, clothing, bedding, and fire, were supplied in sufficient proportions to maintain life and health; and the three years of severe suffering passed over the cotton districts without any sensible increase of disease, and without increasing the frequency of the death toll.
2011, Angela Mason, Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:Fascinated by the fact that the death toll of this singular storm was the fifth highest on record as regards overall effects/death tolls for a natural disaster in the United States in the 20th century […]
the number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 死亡人數 / 死亡人数 (zh) (sǐwáng rénshù), 死者數 / 死者数 (sǐzhěshù)
- Danish: dødstal n
- Dutch: dodental (nl) n
- Esperanto: mortnombro
- Finnish: kuolonuhrien määrä, kuolleiden määrä
- French: nombre de morts m, bilan (fr) m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Blutzoll (de) m, Zahl der Todesopfer f
- Hebrew: מניין מתים m (minyán metím)
- Hindi: मृतकों की संख्या (mŕtkõ kī saṅkhyā, literally “death statistics”)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Japanese: 死亡者数 (しぼうしゃすう, shibōsha-sū), 死者数 (ししゃすう, shisha-sū)
- Khmer: ចំនួនអ្នកស្លាប់ (cɑmnuənʼnɑɑkslap)
- Korean: 사망자 수 (samangja su)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødstall n
- Nynorsk: dødstal n
- Polish: umieralność (pl) f
- Romanian: bilanț al morților n
- Russian: число́ жертв n (čisló žertv), коли́чество поги́бших n (kolíčestvo pogíbšix), спи́сок уби́тых m (spísok ubítyx, literally “list of the killed”)
- Spanish: número de víctimas m
- Swedish: dödssiffra (sv) c, antal döda n, dödstal (sv) n
- Thai: ยอดผู้เสียชีวิต
- Turkish: ölü sayısı
- Vietnamese: số người chết
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