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disasters
Noundisaster has 3 senses
catastrophe, disaster - a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster" --1is a kind ofadversity, hardship, hard knocks
calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" --2is a kind ofmisfortune, bad luck --2has particulars: