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disaster
noun as in accident, trouble
Strongest matches
calamity, catastrophe, collapse, crash, debacle, defeat, emergency, failure, fiasco, flood, harm, hazard, holocaust, mishap, setback, tragedy, woe
Strong matches
adversity, affliction, bale, bane, blight, blow, bust, casualty, cataclysm, collision, depression, exigency, fall, flop, grief, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, reverse, rock, rough, ruin, ruination, stroke, undoing, upset, washout
Weak matches
act of God, bad luck, bad news, bad thing, fell stroke, hard luck, hot water, ill luck, the worst
Example Sentences
We’ll guide you through advance preparations and what to do if disaster strikes.
Construction is time consuming, stressful and expensive in normal times, let alone in a disaster zone with toxic waste.
One might imagine his hands are quite full these days being California governor, what with the state reeling from one of the costliest, most destructive natural disasters in U.S. history.
Otherwise, Trump will continue to smash through every disaster and maintain his hold on the political arena.
It was a "textbook" operation for the crew who had trained for a disaster like this, he added.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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