Body Count - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 body count From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Military, Deathbody countˈbody ˌcount noun [countable]    PMMXthe number of dead soldiers after a period of fighting, or the process of counting their bodiesExamples from the Corpusbody count• There won't be no medals for a body count.• I think we stayed for about a week just trying to get more and more of a body count.• But a rapidly escalating body count forces her to face up to what's really happening.• A higher body count score, for one thing.• We were horrified as the body count rose higher and higher.• By this time the body count was getting so high, sensible people refused to ride along with us.• Police raised their body count in a case they say proves that the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic covered up war crimes. Exercises Exercises

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