Disaster - English meaning

noun

An unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury.

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He had an accident at the factory

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An event not intended by anyone but which has the result of injuring someone or damaging something

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He was killed in an automobile accident at the age of 21., it’s no accident that (= there are reaso…

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Something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or injures someone

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Have an accident josh had an accident and spilled water all over his work., involved in an accident…

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An event such as a very bad storm that cannot be prevented or controlled and usually cannot be insured against

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The insurance company dismissed the accident as an act of god and refused to pay out.

noun

An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster.

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Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity

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An event that causes much suffering to many people

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The factory closings were a calamity for the whole city.

noun

A serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering

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A series of calamities ruined them - floods, a failed harvest, and the death of a son.

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A large-scale and violent event in the natural world.

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The cataclysm at the end of the cretaceous period

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An extremely destructive event or violent change

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Environmental/natural cataclysms, the city has just experienced a cataclysmic flood.

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An event that causes a lot of destruction, or a sudden, violent change

noun

An event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.

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An environmental catastrophe

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A sudden event that causes great suffering or destruction

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Losing his job was a financial catastrophe for his family., a chemical plant leak could cause an en…

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A sudden event that causes very great trouble or destruction

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They were warned of the ecological catastrophe to come.

noun

A minor dispute or disagreement.

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She had occasional contretemps with her staff

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A small argument or unlucky event, often happening in public and causing social embarrassment

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Contretemps between there was a slight contretemps between richard and some guy at the bar., contre…

noun

The state or condition of being difficult.

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Guy had no difficulty in making friends

noun

The fact of not being easy, or of being hard to do or understand

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[ u ] he has some difficulty hearing people when they speak softly., [ c usually pl ] in 1986 he ex…

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The fact of not being easy to do or understand

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With difficulty we finished the job, but only with great difficulty., difficulty of the difficulty …

adjective

Of great weight; difficult to lift or move.

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A heavy and bulky load

noun

A thing, such as a vehicle, that is large or heavy of its kind.

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Meanwhile, he is leading the charge at airport to beef up the runway and expand support facilities …

adverb

Heavily.

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Heavy-laden

noun

Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

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A nuclear holocaust

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A very large amount of destruction, especially by fire or heat, or the killing of very large numbers of people

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The 20th century was ripped apart by holocausts., nuclear holocaust a nuclear holocaust (= destruct…

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The killing of millions of jews and others by the nazis before and during the second world war

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Death caused by a person accidentally while performing a legal act without negligence or intent to harm.

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The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure

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Bad luck, or an experience with a bad result

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Bad luck.

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By pure mischance the secret was revealed

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An unlucky accident.

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Although there were a few minor mishaps, none of the pancakes stuck to the ceiling

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An accident or unlucky event

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[ u ] the parade took place without mishap.

noun

A matter or situation regarded as unwelcome or harmful and needing to be dealt with and overcome.

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They have financial problems

adjective

Denoting or relating to people whose behaviour causes difficulties to themselves and others.

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Practitioners help families develop strategies for managing problem behaviour in teens

noun

Something that causes difficulty or that is hard to deal with

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Financing the camp’s athletic program is a problem., he has a serious health problem., i’m having p…

noun

A change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action.

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A dramatic reversal in population decline in the alps

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A reversal or check in progress.

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A serious setback for the peace process

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Something that causes delay or stops progress

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Democrats suffered a serious setback in yesterday’s election, losing all three contested seats.

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Something that happens that causes a delay or prevents a process from continuing

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He suffered a setback yesterday in his attempts to take a stake in the mobile phone company., a set…

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An event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.

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A tragedy that killed 95 people

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A very sad event or situation, esp. one involving death or suffering

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[ u ] his reckless driving was bound to end in tragedy., [ c ] it’s a tragedy (that) so many childr…