casualty vs train wreck

casualty

noun
  • Someone or something adversely affected by a decision, event or situation. 

  • Something that happens by chance, especially an unfortunate event; an accident, a disaster. 

  • An incidental charge or payment. 

  • A person in military service who becomes unavailable for duty, for any reason (notably death, injury, illness, capture, or desertion). 

  • The accident and emergency department of a hospital providing immediate treatment; a casualty department or emergency room. 

  • A person suffering from injuries or who has been killed due to an accident or through an act of violence. 

  • Specifically, a person who has been killed (not only injured) due to an accident or through an act of violence; a fatality. 

train wreck

noun
  • Someone (especially a woman) who is unbalanced and considered a mess, a disaster, one who is suffering personal ruin. 

  • The aftermath of a train crash. 

  • A disaster, especially one which is large in scale and readily seen by public observers. 

verb
  • To ruin utterly and catastrophically, to cause to end in disaster. 

How often have the words casualty and train wreck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )