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Definition of Catastrophe

Catastrophe An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Related Definitions: An, And, As, By, Calamitous, Calamity, Change, Comedy, Death, Denouement, Disastrous, Dramatic, Earth, Effected, Elevation, Event, Extended, Final, Great, Hence, In, Internal, It, Marriage, Misfortune, Nature, Of, Or, Order, Part, Piece, Producing, Romance, Some, Subsidence, Subversion, Sudden, Surface, System, The, Tragedy, Violent, Widely

Catastrophe Quotations The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe. Albert Einstein Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there. P. J. O'Rourke Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. H. G. Wells Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe. William I. Thompson Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms. Bill Frist

Catastrophe Translations catastrophe in Dutch is onheil, ramp, catastrofe catastrophe in German is Katastrophe catastrophe in Swedish is katastrof

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