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Webster's 1828 DictionaryCATASTROPHE, WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)n Merriam Webster'snoun Etymology: Greek katastroph?, from katastrephein to overturn, from kata- + strephein to turn Date: 1540 Oxford Reference Dictionaryn. 1 a great and usu. sudden disaster. 2 the denouement of a drama. 3 a disastrous end; ruin. 4 an event producing a subversion of the order of things. Derivatives: catastrophic adj. catastrophically adv. Etymology: L catastropha f. Gk katastrophe (as CATA-, strophe turning f. strepho turn) Webster's 1913 DictionaryCatastrophe Ca*tas"tro*phe, n. [L. catastropha, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + ? to turn.] 1. 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 strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. --Bp. Burnet. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. --Woodward. 2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy. 3. (Geol.) 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. --Whewell. Collin's Cobuild Dictionary(catastrophes) A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage. From all points of view, war would be a catastrophe... = disaster N-COUNT Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
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