disaster

Definition for 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

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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

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But for many locals it spelled financial disaster.

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But the acceleration of marine wildlife deaths in the weeks after the fires led some to wonder whether L.A.’s disaster on land was also worsening the crisis in the sea.

From Los Angeles Times

An emergency fund of $20m should also be set up to provide "immediate and urgent" help to people affected by the disaster, and to carry out thorough health and environmental assessments, the petitioners said.

From BBC

Sending Russian soldiers back in return for Ukrainian civilians would be a disaster.

From BBC

While this suffering springs from the day of the disaster - 15 April 1989 - it's been compounded by the prolonged struggle for justice since then.

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