catastrophe

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[ US /kəˈtæstɹəfi/ ]
[ UK /kɐtˈæstɹəfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
    lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system
    his policies were a disaster
  3. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    the earthquake was a disaster
    the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity
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How To Use catastrophe In A Sentence

  • Drastic changes are needed if environmental catastrophe is to be avoided.
  • If the contract is cancelled, it'll be a catastrophe for everyone concerned.
  • They love the series and some whitehats tell em they gotta do it in three movies and some bullshit tv series..which most likely wouldnt be hbo or the like they cancelled deadwood in three seasons because it was too expensive to produce. network tv adaptation would be a catastrophe and blasphamy..they deny it probably out of respect. Ron Howard to direct DARK TOWER movie trilogy
  • The worst hit areas are now engaged in the biggest post-catastrophe reconstruction programme since the Second World War.
  • We have no low buffoonery in the former, such as disgraces Enobarbus, and is hardly redeemed by his affecting catastrophe. The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05
  • With the help of catastrophe criterion, the anomalism criterions of the crossfeed between dam body and foundation are acquired from the real contact area or fractal dimension curve vs.
  • You'd better take along a first-aid kit to cope with unexpected catastrophes.
  • Yet to borrow their reasoning and make an equivalent suggestion that Liverpool's fans in turn had some role in their own catastrophe, somehow makes a person execrable and lynchworthy.
  • As the harvesting effort is increased, the two equilibrium points eventually converge to one point, at which there is a catastrophe.
  • I do think it's far more possible now than it was in 2006 when the Iraq report came in saying we were losing the war and catastrophe impended. CNN Transcript May 28, 2008
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