heavy loss of life
1loss of life — formal phrase the deaths of a lot of people in an accident, war etc There was only minor damage to property and no loss of life. heavy losses (=when a lot of people die): Despite heavy losses, the battalion regrouped and fought on. Thesaurus:… …
2Loss of Life in the Stalin Era — Alexander Yakovlev in a recent book, A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002), put the number of deaths due to the Soviet system at 60 million. Yakovlev, who along with Mikhail Gorbachev was an… …
3loss of life — formal the deaths of a lot of people in an accident, war etc There was only minor damage to property and no loss of life. heavy losses (= when a lot of people die): Despite heavy losses, the battalion regrouped and fought on …
4life — noun 1 living things ADJECTIVE ▪ intelligent ▪ Is there intelligent life on other planets? ▪ animal, bird, human, insect, plant …
5loss — [ lɔs ] noun *** ▸ 1 no longer having something ▸ 2 having less than before ▸ 3 failure to win race etc. ▸ 4 money lost ▸ 5 death of someone ▸ 6 sadness from death/loss ▸ 7 disadvantage from loss ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) count or uncount the state of not …
6loss — W1S2 [lɔs US lo:s] n [: Old English; Origin: los destruction ] 1.) [U and C] the fact of no longer having something, or of having less of it than you used to have, or the process by which this happens loss of ▪ The court awarded Ms Dixon £7,000… …
7loss — noun 1 losing of sth ADJECTIVE ▪ appreciable, considerable, significant, substantial ▪ dramatic, great, huge, major, serious …
8loss — noun 1 NO LONGER HAVING STH (C, U) the fact of no longer having something you used to have: Job losses were common in the 1980s. (+ of): a temporary loss of memory | weight/blood etc loss | rapid hair loss 2 MONEY (C, U) money that has been lost… …
9loss */*/*/ — UK [lɒs] / US [lɔs] noun Word forms loss : singular loss plural losses 1) [countable/uncountable] the state of no longer having something because it has been taken from you or destroyed It was an ancient car anyway, so it was no great loss. job… …
10loss*/*/*/ — [lɒs] noun 1) [C/U] the state of no longer having something job losses[/ex] a loss of confidence[/ex] The loss of his sight was a severe blow.[/ex] 2) [C/U] the state of having less of something than before a new treatment for hair loss[/ex]… …
