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| NOUN | 1 | catastrophe, calamity, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm | An event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
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| 2 | catastrophe, disaster | A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune | |
| 3 | catastrophe, cataclysm | A sudden violent change in the earth's surface |
| Sounds | kahtae'strahfiy |
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| Rhymes | apostrophe, atrophy, autobiography, and 46 more rhymes in fiy... |
| Meaning | An event resulting in great loss and misfortune. |
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| Synonyms | calamity, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm |
| Broader | misfortune, bad luck |
| Narrower | act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty; apocalypse; famine; kiss of death; meltdown; plague; visitation; tidal wave; tsunami |
| Meaning | A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune. |
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| Examples | "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system" |
| Synonyms | disaster |
| Broader | adversity, hardship, hard knocks |
| Meaning | A sudden violent change in the earth's surface. |
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| Synonyms | cataclysm |
| Broader | geological phenomenon |
| Narrower | nuclear winter |
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