disaster
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/ noun B1- An unexpected natural or man-made catastrophe of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life or sometimes permanent change to the natural environment. · People would suffer disasters when society's morality degenerates.
- An unfortunate or unpleasant occurrence, especially one resulting from an accident or something going wrong.
- An wholly unsatisfactory result caused by something going wrong or being done poorly; a flop or failure. · the cake was a disaster.
- A skateboard trick involving a 180-degree ollie, landing on the center of the board with the front trucks facing towards the ramp and the back trucks over the lip. The skater then leans forwards to return in the ramp.
Plural disasters
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I fear an attack myself, after all these disasters.”
The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
In the midst of the disasters that befell the house, Cocles was the only one unmoved.
I feared that some disaster might occur, for I was very fond of the old man, and I knew that his heart was weak.”
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