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disaster, calamity, mishap, mischance, misadventure, failure, fiasco, misery, accident, trouble, casualty, misfortune, infliction, affliction, contretemps, stroke, havoc, ravage, wreck, fatality, grief, crash, devastation, desolation, avalanche, hardship, blow, visitation, ruin, reverse, emergency, scourge, cataclysm, convulsion, debacle, tragedy, adversity, bad luck, upheaval, down*; see also disaster, misfortune 1, 2.

Antonyms benefit, triumph, good luck. See syn. study at disaster.disaster.

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