DEATH TOLL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does death toll mean? 

• DEATH TOLL (noun)
  The noun DEATH TOLL has 1 sense:

1. the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster

  Familiarity information: DEATH TOLL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEATH TOLL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("death toll" is a kind of...):

cost; price; toll (value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something)

 Context examples 

In the deadly 2018 earthquake in the Indonesian city of Palu, intense shaking changed solid ground into a landslide of flowing mud, multiplying the death toll and economic impact.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) of the Philippines increased the previous death toll to six following the landslide caused by the 5.0 earthquake.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)

On Saturday, aftershocks of a powerful earthquake with reported magnitude 6.3 that struck southern Philippines on Wednesday night have increased the death toll of the extended event from five people to six due to a massive landslide following a 5.0 magnitude aftershock on Saturday.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)