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Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.
Seth Berkley

Meaning of "death toll" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEATH TOLL

death toll  [deθ təʊl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEATH TOLL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Death toll is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DEATH TOLL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll

This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll. It covers the lowest estimate of death as well as the highest estimate, the name of the event, the location, and the start and end of each event. Some events may belong in more than one category. In addition, some of the listed events overlap each other, and in some cases the death toll from a smaller event is included in the one for the larger event or time period of which it was part.

Definition of death toll in the English dictionary

The definition of death toll in the dictionary is the number of people killed in a disaster, an accident etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEATH TOLL


bowl
bəʊl
citole
ˈsɪtəʊl
control
kənˈtrəʊl
eucalyptole
ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəʊl
extol
ɪkˈstəʊl
goal
ɡəʊl
hole
həʊl
payroll
ˈpeɪˌrəʊl
phenetole
ˈfɛnɪˌtəʊl
pistole
pɪsˈtəʊl
poll
pəʊl
role
rəʊl
roll
rəʊl
scroll
skrəʊl
skatole
ˈskætəʊl
sole
səʊl
soul
səʊl
stole
stəʊl
tole
təʊl
toll
təʊl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEATH TOLL

death mask
death metal
death notice
death penalty
death rate
death rattle
death ray
death roll
death row
death seat
death sentence
death squad
death tax
death threat
death throes
death tourist
death trap
Death Valley
death warrant
death wish

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEATH TOLL

atoll
baby doll
babydoll
Barbie doll
boll
Carroll
coll
doll
electoral roll
honor roll
knoll
moll
noll
on a roll
Ragdoll
rock and roll
rock-and-roll
rock´n´roll
stroll
troll

Synonyms and antonyms of death toll in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «death toll» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEATH TOLL

Find out the translation of death toll to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of death toll from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «death toll» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

死亡人数
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

número de muertos
570 millions of speakers

English

death toll
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मरने वालों की संख्या
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدد القتلى
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Число погибших
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

número de mortos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মৃত্যর হার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nombre de morts
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

jumlah kematian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zahl der Todesopfer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

死亡者数
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사망자 수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tol mati
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

số người chết
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இறப்பு எண்ணிக்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मृतांची संख्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ölüm ücreti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bilancio delle vittime
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ofiar
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

число загиблих
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

taxare moarte
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αριθμός των νεκρών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dodetal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dödssiffran
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Dødstallene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of death toll

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH TOLL»

The term «death toll» is quite widely used and occupies the 33.238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEATH TOLL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «death toll» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «death toll» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about death toll

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QUOTES WITH «DEATH TOLL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word death toll.
1
Seth Berkley
Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in the United States die of seasonal flu. In the developing world, the data is much sketchier, but the death toll is almost certainly higher.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEATH TOLL»

Discover the use of death toll in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to death toll and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Death Toll
Bodies are being exhumed at King's Lynn's cemetery, the bones moved to higher ground to avoid flooding.
Jim Kelly, 2011
2
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
Collects and analyzes seventy years of communist crimes that offer details on Kim Sung's Korea, Vietnam under "Uncle Ho," and Cuba under Castro.
Stéphane Courtois, Mark Kramer, 1999
3
Death Toll
"Nothing excites me more than discovering new writing talent, and this book is bursting with it!" - Stephen Leather "Action, violence and cold-blooded ruthlessness, this compilation of thrillers has it all.
Stephen Leather, Alex Shaw, J. H. Bográn, 2013
4
Terrorism in Western Europe: Explaining the Trends Since 1950
Here Germany, with a death toll of 97 (equalling 3.5 per cent of the total death toll ), has three and a half times as many lives lost as the other two countries. The death toll of Greece is 28 and that of Portugal 27, both making up 1 per cent of the ...
Jan Oskar Engene, 2004
5
The Sultana Tragedy: America's Greatest Maritime Disaster
William Hoffman, the commissary general of prisoners, estimated the death toll at 1,238. This figure included 1,101 soldiers, and 137 civilians and crewmen. Hoffman based his count on an estimated 2,021 as the total number of people on the ...
Potter, Jerry O.
6
Lists by Death Toll: List of Mass Murderers and Spree ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
7
Shipwrecks of Canad: List of Canadian Disasters by Death ...
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Books Llc, 2010
8
Articles on Lists by Death Toll, Including: List of Wars and ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Hephaestus Books, 2011
9
After the Killing Fields: Lessons from the Cambodian Genocide
ESTIMATING THE TOTAL DEATH TOLL How can we determine the total death toll during the Khmer Rouge regime, above and beyond deaths by execution? In principle, there are several possible approaches. One method is to survey a ...
Craig Etcheson, 2005
10
The Life and Death of Smallpox
In England, the annual death toll from smallpox between 1850 and 1869 had been nearly 4,000 (196 per million living), and in the decade 1885—94, in spite of the growth of crowded towns and an increasingly mobile popu' lation, this had  ...
Ian Glynn, Jenifer Glynn, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DEATH TOLL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term death toll is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Death toll in Jos, Nigeria attacks now 51: relief agency
LAGOS: The death toll in a twin attack on the central Nigerian city of Jos has risen to 51, the country's National Emergency Management ... «The Daily Star, Jul 15»
2
Death toll from high-risk poses prompts safer selfie campaign in …
A new campaign from Russian police is urging people to take safer selfies, after about 100 people have been injured and dozens have died in ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
3
Eastern Cape Initiate Death Toll Continues to Climb
The number of initiates who have died in the Eastern Cape over the winter season has now risen to 20, the provincial health department said ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
4
UN: Yemen civilian death toll passes 1500
The grinding conflict in Yemen has killed more than 1,500 civilians, the United Nations says, warning that millions of people in the ... «WDIV Detroit, Jul 15»
5
Amarnath yatra claims two more lives, pilgrim death toll reaches four
Srinagar: Two more Amarnath pilgrims died of cardiac arrest taking the death toll to four during the ongoing yatra, even as the footfall of the ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
6
Global death toll from heroin and opium
Global death toll from heroin and opium. Graphic on heroin and opium use worldwide. AFP | Graphic on heroin and opium use worldwide. «Eyewitness News, Jul 15»
7
Death toll increases to 3 in migrant boat accident
The death toll from Tuesday's migrant boat accident in the Aegean Sea rose to three on Wednesday. At least 25 people went missing when a ... «Daily Sabah, Jul 15»
8
GM ignition-switch death toll rises
DETROIT (July 8, 2015) — General Motors Co.'s faulty ignition switches are now linked to 121 deaths, two more than a week ago, the office of ... «Tire Business, Jul 15»
9
Death toll climbs in Boko Haram attacks
A blood splattered wall and broken window lay testament after a bomb blast in Zaria, Nigeria, Tuesday, July 7, 2015. A bomb blast in Nigeria's ... «Brunswick News, Jul 15»
10
The Rapidly Rising Death Toll of the Heroin Epidemic
The death toll from the heroin epidemic has been climbing dramatically in recent years — and the annual rate of overdose deaths nearly ... «The Fiscal Times, Jul 15»

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