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"his policies were a disaster"nouna state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
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"the earthquake was a disaster"nounan event resulting in great loss and misfortune
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nounan act that has disastrous consequencestype of:
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- visitation any disaster or catastrophe
- meltdown a disaster comparable to a nuclear meltdown
- fatality a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- fatality the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
- chernobyl a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986)
- pepys English diarist whose diary contained detailed descriptions of 17th century disasters in England (1633-1703)
- noaa an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather
- brinkmanship the policy of pushing a dangerous situation to the brink of disaster (to the limits of safety)
- great blue shark slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark; blue body shades to white belly; dangerous especially during maritime disasters
- death-roll a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster