HOW TO PRONOUNCE
catastrophe
/kəˈtæstɹəfi/
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What does catastrophe mean?
noun
- Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
- A disaster beyond expectations.
- The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
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And I know not how much longer it might have lasted, had it not been for the catastrophe which ended this voyage.
Napoleon was so affected by this catastrophe, that he fainted away on the spot, and was carried out by two other puppets.
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With this deadly compound machine they actually ascended from Boulogne, and had not left the land when the inevitable catastrophe took place.
He is manifestly drunk, and the date “4 June,” on a neighbouring stone, gives us the reason and occasion of his catastrophe.
Thirty carts could not save all the wounded and in the general catastrophe one could not disregard oneself and one’s own family.