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toll
noun as in fee
noun as in damage, deaths
Example Sentences
A UK-based monitoring group put the death toll at 41 and reported that the strikes hit a warehouse used to store weapons and homes inhabited by families of Iran-backed militia fighters.
This can be dangerous, as extreme rain events, such as those recently witnessed in Spain that resulted in a devastating death toll, are rising due to climate change.
More than 1 million people succumb to drug-resistant infections every year, and the death toll could reach nearly 2 million per year by 2050.
The final estimated toll of famines under Stalin came to more than 7 million of his own citizens.
The toll does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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