catastrophe (noun)
31epitasis — noun /ɪˈpɪtəsɪs/ a) In ancient drama, the second part of a play, in which the action begins. , 1760: How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter, with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events, may make no… …
32disaster — noun 1) a subway disaster Syn: catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, act of God, holocaust; accident 2) a string of personal disasters Syn: misfortune, mishap, misadventure, mischance …
33disaster — noun 1) a railway disaster Syn: catastrophe, calamity, cataclysm, tragedy, act of God, accident 2) a string of personal disasters Syn: misfortune, mishap, misadventure, setback, rev …
34survivor guilt — noun a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of …
35kiss of death — noun something that is ruinous if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career • Hypernyms: ↑calamity, ↑catastrophe, ↑disaster, ↑tragedy, ↑cataclysm * * * Etymology: so called from the betraying kiss with which Judas… …
36dime novel — noun (C) AmE a cheap book with a story that contains a lot of exciting events dimension /daI menSn, di / noun 1 (C) a part of a situation that makes you regard the situation in a particular way; aspect (1): new/different dimension: The baby has… …
37nuclear winter — noun a long period of darkness and extreme cold that scientists predict would follow a full scale nuclear war; a layer of dust and smoke in the atmosphere would cover the earth and block the rays of the sun; most living organisms would perish •… …
38cataclysm — noun Etymology: French cataclysme, from Latin cataclysmos, from Greek kataklysmos, from kataklyzein to inundate, from kata + klyzein to wash more at clyster Date: 1599 1. flood, deluge 2. catastrophe 3a 3. a momentous and …
39epitasis — noun (plural epitases) Etymology: Greek, increased intensity, from epiteinein to stretch tighter, from epi + teinein to stretch more at thin Date: 1583 the part of a play developing the main action and leading to the catastrophe …
40Shoah — noun Etymology: Modern Hebrew shō āh, literally, catastrophe, from Hebrew Date: 1967 holocaust 3a …
