Synonym: accident, calamity, disaster, misfortune, tragedy. Similar words: catastrophically, claustrophobia, claustrophobic, prophet, prophetic, trophy, atrophy, astronaut. Meaning: [kə'tæstrəfɪ] n. 1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune 2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune 3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface.
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61. After the catastrophe, they would hardly find it as easy to summon police as they had done before.
62. A patient who is writhing in pain may harbor an intra-abdominal catastrophe.
63. It was not, somehow, the air of a man contemplating nuclear catastrophe, but a more pleasant dream.
64. Contaminants combined with inappropriate wound care can convert a simple wound to a major catastrophe.
65. Seven different teachers in the course of ten days became the final catastrophe of this classroom.
66. This catastrophe - probably caused by an earthquake and explosion of gases - may be the reason.
67. But they also knew there was a remote chance that their efforts might help to prevent catastrophe.
68. I have no doubt this has been a terrible ordeal for you and the verdict is a personal and professional catastrophe.
69. One day catastrophe hit: His house burned down and all his ships either sank or were captured by pirates.
70. Short of causing a major catastrophe,(http://sentencedict.com/catastrophe.html) a mistake will not cost him his job.
71. Although this has been argued over for fifty years, the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible.
72. The republics were poor, in a state of virtual economic catastrophe.
73. It celebrates not a triumph over the struggle for existence, but a catastrophe.
74. While the root cause of the catastrophe remains uncertain, there are some pointers for the investigators.
75. Conservatives on the faculty enjoyed the grim satisfaction of seeing their predictions of catastrophe realized in full.
76. What averted catastrophe was the introduction of widespread electronic communications, especially for education and entertainment.
77. Nevertheless, the mountain goat maintains a tenuous but firm hold in its cruel environment, even though catastrophe is never far away.
78. For companies need protection from potential catastrophe if they are to remain productive, even in business.
79. Each side claims that its estimate of the chances of nuclear catastrophe is more accurate.
80. For much of 1998-99 it seemed as if he was happy to distance himself from Clinton's catastrophe.
81. Computer system users can not control risk management decisions, but suffer big losses when inadequate protection fails to avert catastrophe.
82. For a girl to be put in the family-way in those days spelt catastrophe - nothing worse could be imagined then.
83. It was also criticized for failing to anticipate the catastrophe.
84. In fact, the chemicals are gradually disappearing, making it harder to pinpoint the extent of the catastrophe.
85. Catastrophe, as discussed in Chapter 13, can be linked with inevitability, to assert dramatic power.
86. Neurotics walk a tightrope from one catastrophe to the next.
87. It crowns a long-term rise in catastrophe losses, even though the number of major disasters was below its mid-1980s peak.
88. The first has the effect of moving the cusp towards the back edge of the catastrophe surface.
89. Even more probable than the extinction of humanity is a catastrophe that destroys our culture while leaving some humans still alive.
90. There are many who have suffered personal disaster and whose livelihoods have been destroyed by natural catastrophe or invasion.
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