Just as disaster can range from a calamitous event to one that is merely unsuccessful, catastrophe can refer to what is truly devastating as well as to what is simply deeply disheartening.
Definition of catastrophe noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Iron catastrophe, runaway melting of early Earth's interior as a result of potential energy release from sinking iron and nickel melted by heat of radioactive decay
catastrophe, n. meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
- A great, often sudden calamity. 2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreled—the whole dinner was a catastrophe. 3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot. 4. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.
A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage. From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe.
牛津英语同义词学习词典 - catastrophe catastrophe noun crisis (a global catastrophe) disaster (a catastrophe with the food for the party)
CATASTROPHE definition: a sudden and widespread disaster. See examples of catastrophe used in a sentence.
Between these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe. 1964, Nikos Kazantzakis, Michael Cacoyannis, Zorba the Greek, spoken by Alexis Zorba (Anthony Quinn): Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe.
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