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Another word for calamity

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Noun

  1. An occurrence inflicting widespread destruction and distress

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Another word for calamity

Noun
  1. See also:

    disaster

    tragedy

    misfortune

    disaster

    catastrophe

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Sentence Examples

  • Public calamity was added to private bereavement.

  • It suffered severe calamity from an earthquake, which in 1839 destroyed the greater part of the city.

  • His death was the great calamity of Scotland, and is lamented in a famous fragment of early Scottish verse.

  • It still depends on Your Majesty to preserve humanity from the calamity of another war.

  • Then these two nations entered upon that long tragedy of the Hundred Years' War, a calamity absolutely immeasurable to both.

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