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death tolls

death tolls is the plural of death toll.

Meaning of death toll

Noun

death toll (plural death tolls)

  1. The number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident.
    • 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.1866, John Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine, page 232

Questions about death tolls

What is death tolls the plural of?
Death tolls is the plural of death toll.

Words near death tolls in the dictionary

  1. death threat
  2. death threats
  3. death throe
  4. death throes
  5. death toll
  6. death tolls
  7. Death Trail
  8. death trap
  9. death traps
  10. Death Valley
  11. Death Valley driver

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