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English noun: cataclysm | |||
| 1. | cataclysm (phenomenon) a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | ||
| Synonyms | catastrophe | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | geological phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | nuclear winter | ||
| 2. | cataclysm (event) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | ||
| Samples | The whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity. The earthquake was a disaster. | ||
| Synonyms | calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bad luck, misfortune | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | act of God, apocalypse, famine, force majeure, inevitable accident, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, tidal wave, tsunami, unavoidable casualty, vis major, visitation | ||
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