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Definition of Body count
1. Noun. A count of troops killed in an operation or time period. "The daily body count increased as the war went on"
Definition of Body count
1. Noun. The number of persons or bodies counted as casualties, especially of those killed in a disaster or battle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Count
Literary usage of Body count
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Modern Europe: With an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1802)
"... and made a masterly disposition for cutting off the communication of the
detachment of the enemy with their main body- Count Brown, therefore, ..."
2. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress by Mark Twain (1879)
"Among our body count we the versatile and talented Ugolino; the justly celebrated
Rodolpho; the gifted and accomplished Roderigo; the management have spared ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Seeing the body. Count. Where is that shape gone, that even now I saw Here moving
on the shore ? What burden, too, Was that he laid upon the sand ? ..."
4. How Your Body Works. by Jo Ellen Moore (1998)
"A\y Heart It pumps blood through little tubes. Blood takes food to my body.
Blood takes oxygen to my body. Count the Heartbeats Does your heart always beat ..."
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