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calamity
[ kuh-lam-i-tee ]
noun
- a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
Synonyms: , , , , ,
- grievous affliction; adversity; misery:
the calamity of war.
calamity
/ əˈæɪɪ /
noun
- a disaster or misfortune, esp one causing extreme havoc, distress, or misery
- a state or feeling of deep distress or misery
Word History and Origins
Origin of calamity1
Word History and Origins
Origin of calamity1
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Example Sentences
There’s also discussion about moving around steelhead to create backup populations should calamity befall one, as well as boost genetic diversity of the rare fish.
How to sear into a reader’s brain the profound calamity of a dozen savage killings?
The second was another calamity, Vicario again culpable when he turned home striker Marshall Munetsi's tame header on to Spence when he could have held on, the ball rebounded back into his own goal.
They have acted in myopic and ruinous fashion, bringing calamity to the nation they purport to love.
But the official view from some is that the Oval Office meeting was not a calamity.
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