calamity
/kəˈlæmɪti/ noun C2- An event resulting in great loss.
- The distress that results from some disaster.
Plural calamities
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This seemed nothing short of a calamity to Anne.
While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came a Mouse.
you who so lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a similar misfortune.”
You know the calamity that has happened to us, do you not?”
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