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Definición y significado de catastrophe
Definición
catastrophe (n.)
1.an event resulting in great loss and misfortune"the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity" "the earthquake was a disaster"
2.a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
3.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"
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Merriam Webster
CatastropheCa*tas"tro*phe (?), n. [L. catastropha, Gr. �, fr. � to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + � to turn.]
1. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Burnet.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.
2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.
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Sinónimos
catastrophe (n.)
accident, adversity, affliction, calamity, cataclysm, conclusion, denouement, destruction, devastation, disaster, downpour, event, failure, fuckery, misery, misfortune, mishap, tragedy, tribulation, upheaval, worst, flop (colloquial), woe (literary)
Ver también
catastrophe (n.)
↘ black, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, damage, disastrous, fatal, fateful, ruinous, unhappy
Frases
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Diccionario analógico
catastrophe (n.)
malheur (fr)[Classe]
affliction; woe; misery; calamity; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy; cataclysm[ClasseHyper.]
dégât important (fr)[Classe]
soudain et imprévu (fr)[Caract.]
catastrophe (n.)
natural disaster; act of God; force majeure; vis major; inevitable accident; unavoidable casualty[Classe]
geological phenomenon[Hyper.]
catastrophe (n.)
adversity, hard knocks, hardship[Hyper.]
catastrophe (n.)
conclusion d'un récit (fr)[Classe]
division d'un poème (fr)[DomainDescrip.]
Wikipedia
Catastrophe
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Look up catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
A catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event.
The term may also refer to:
- Catastrophe (book), a non-fiction book by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
- Catastrophe (drama), the climax and resolution of a plot in ancient Greek drama and poetry
- Catastrophe, the main antagonist in The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
- Catastrophe (play), a 1982 short play by Samuel Beckett
- Catastrophe (TV series), a five-part science series on Channel 4
- The (Asia Minor) Catastrophe, a Greek name for the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
- Catastrophic failure, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)
- Catastrophic (band), rock band featuring Trevor Peres
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