Thesaurus / disasters
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synonyms for disasters
- calamity
- catastrophe
- collapse
- crash
- debacle
- defeat
- emergency
- failure
- fiasco
- flood
- harm
- hazard
- holocaust
- mishap
- setback
- tragedy
- woe
- adversity
- affliction
- bale
- bane
- blight
- blow
- bust
- casualty
- cataclysm
- collision
- depression
- exigency
- fall
- flop
- grief
- misadventure
- mischance
- misfortune
- reverse
- rock
- rough
- ruin
- ruination
- slip
- stroke
- undoing
- upset
- washout
- act of God
- bad luck
- bad news
- fell stroke
- hard luck
- hot water
- ill luck
- the worst
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Do not suffer yourselves to be persuaded that measures of foresight are always followed by disasters.
JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO BRAZILMARIA GRAHAMYet, even against such accumulated disasters and disgraces, his vigorous and aspiring mind bore up.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYThe post-office strike has already shown us what deplorable disasters even a skirmish can bring about.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMThe people blame themselves for the disasters and the adversities which they endure continually.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERShall we curse steam, which has changed the face of the earth, because it has caused so many awful disasters?
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEAnd the possibility opened out such a vista of disasters that Alice was almost moved to tears.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 108, APRIL 6, 1895VARIOUSStorms, fires, rail disasters, major accidents—even death—shall not deter.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEYWith all their hopes, the people at the outset were little prepared for the costs and disasters of war.
THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEAWILLIAM HOWARD RUSSELLThe most heart-rending events connected with these disasters occurred everywhere throughout the country.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANSeals that haunted on that coast have been known to speak to man in his own tongue, presaging great disasters.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, VOLUME XXIROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON