- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- an accident waiting to happen idiom
- cataclysm
- cataclysmic
- cataclysmically
- catastrophe
- catastrophic
- disastrously
- doomsday prepper
- doomsday prepping
- doomsday scenario
- dumpster fire
- mishap
- natural disaster
- non-emergency
- perfect storm
- post-accident
Meaning of disaster in English
disaster | American Dictionary
disaster | Business English
Examples of disaster
disaster
Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family.
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They are predictive in that one could use them with hypothetical disasters to predict what the most likely policy and political outcomes will be.
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The states ensured that their peoples were able to regain the property that they regularly lost to natural disasters and to foreign invasion.
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Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters.
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Historical studies of major natural disasters offer invaluable insights into a society by revealing long-term themes and continuities.
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A contemporary chronicler opined (in the annal for 1011) that 'all those disasters befell us through bad policy (unraeligdas)'.
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Other scholars have concentrated on individuals or local efforts with a particular emphasis on ballooning firsts or ballooning disasters.
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Catastrophic disasters violate expectations about an efficient and forceful government response and damage agency reputations.
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Before the 1980s, at least, citizens looked to states and localities if they looked to government at all for help with disasters.
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Will we strive to salvage the disaster's 'event-ness', or work to make it 'process-like'?
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The research agenda is not to look for impending disasters or catastrophes lurking around the corner.
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The computer itself was about to be indicted for the disasters.
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An extreme example of categorizing landscapes based on health is cities, which are enormously expensive ecological disasters.
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Major disasters, for example, compromise many interdependent systems simultaneously, often including individual lives, social systems, ecological systems, communication systems, and computer systems.
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The study also depicts the clinical disasters that could follow the enthusiastic pursuit of an untried, fashionable idea, notably faradism.
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Collocations with disaster
disaster
These are words often used in combination with disaster.
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absolute disaster
So too would cheerfulness and patience in the face of absolute disaster.
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brink of disaster
As a woman of questionable morals, she seemed to stand by as her family teetered on the brink of disaster.
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climatic disaster
This will mean that we fail to achieve our climate policy objectives and result in a climatic disaster.
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आपत्ति…
災害, 大惨事, 大失敗…
felaket, âfet, yıkım…
désastre [masculine], catastrophe [feminine], désastre…
desastre…
ramp…
பெரும் தீங்கு, சேதம், மரணம் அல்லது கடுமையான சிரமத்தை (விளைவிக்கும் ஒரு நிகழ்வு)…
आपदा, हादसा, त्रासदी…
આપત્તિ, અકસ્માત, દુર્ઘટના…
katastrofe, ulykke…
svår olycka, katastrof…
bencana…
die Katastrophe…
katastrofe [masculine], ulykke [masculine], katastrofe…
حادثہ, تباہی, قہر…
лихо, катастрофа…
విపత్తు, ఆపద…
বিপর্যয়, বড় ক্ষতি বা মৃত্যু বা গুরুতর অসুবিধা…
pohroma, katastrofa…
bencana…
ความหายนะ…
tai họa…
klęska, katastrofa, nieszczęście…
재난, 재앙…
disastro…
