0 the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident: --
1 the number of people who died as a result of an event: --
The day after the earthquake the death toll had risen to 90.
Who could be with an annual death toll of over 5,000 and an annual total of injured of over 200,000?
We now know about the death toll and therefore we have a moral obligation to ban tobacco advertising.
The death toll for 2005 was 41 500 people.
The objection to the apparently compulsive use of such phrases as 'raging inferno' and 'death toll' is precisely that they may have lost their impact by constant use.
The death toll is impossible to calculate.
The ensuing death toll from the combined effects of the occupation amounted to 200,000 by 1979 alone, out of a starting population of fewer than 700,000.
In addition to sparking a particularly violent ethnic conflict, this coup attempt was the death toll for a remarkable political turn-around.
The living conditions in these camps are deplorable, and the death toll from dehydration, hunger and diseases has been alarming.
