| Pronunciation: | | 'katu`klizum
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| Matching Terms: | | cataclysmal, cataclysmic, cataclysmist
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- [n] an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
- [n] a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
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| | Synonyms: | | calamity, catastrophe, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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| | See Also: | | act of God, apocalypse, bad luck, force majeure, geological phenomenon, inevitable accident, kiss of death, misfortune, plague, unavoidable casualty, vis major, visitation |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cat"a*clysm\, n. [L. cataclysmos, Gr. kataklysmo`s,
from ? to dash over, inundate; kata` downward, against + ? to
wash or dash over: cf. F. cataclysme.]
1. An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a
deluge.
2. (Geol.) Any violent catastrophe, involving sudden and
extensive changes of the earth's surface.
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