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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
disaster
1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune (Freq. 7) - the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity - the earthquake was a disaster • Syn: calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm • Derivationally related forms: cataclysmic (for: cataclysm), cataclysmal (for: cataclysm), tragical (for: tragedy), tragic (for: tragedy), disastrous, calamitous (for: calamity) • Hypernyms: misfortune, bad luck • Hyponyms: act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, apocalypse, famine, kiss of death, meltdown, plague, visitation, tidal wave, tsunami 2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune (Freq. 7) - lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system - his policies were a disaster • Syn: catastrophe • Hypernyms: adversity, hardship, hard knocks 3. an act that has disastrous consequences (Freq. 1) • Hypernyms: destruction, devastation
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