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"lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"nouna state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
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nouna sudden violent change in the earth's surface
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nounan event resulting in great loss and misfortunetype of:
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- visitation any disaster or catastrophe
- survivor guilt a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
- act of god a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- unavoidable casualty a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- force majeure a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- vis major a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- inevitable accident a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events