Vi fant 7 definisjoner av cataclysm på engelsk.
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| cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" | ||
| calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy | ||
| misfortune, bad luck unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | ||
| act of god, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty, vis major a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events; "he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God" | ||
| apocalypse a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil | ||
| famine a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death | ||
| kiss of death something that is ruinous; "if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career" | ||
| meltdown a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown; "there is little likelihood of a meltdown comparable to the American banking collapse in March 1933" | ||
| plague an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague" | ||
| visitation an official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese" | ||
| tidal wave a wave resulting from the periodic flow of the tides that is caused by the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun | ||
| cataclysm - a sudden violent change in the earth's surface | ||
| catastrophe | ||
| geological phenomenon a natural phenomenon involving the structure or composition of the earth | ||
