Толковый словарь английского языка - catastrophe
Catastrophe
catastrophe
noun Etymology: Greek katastrophē, from katastrephein to overturn, from kata+ strephein to turn Date: 1540 the final event of the dramatic action especially of a tragedy, a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin, 3. a violent and sudden change in a feature of the earth, a violent usually destructive natural event (as a supernova), utter failure ; fiasco , catastrophic adjective catastrophically adverb
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n. 1 a great and usu. sudden disaster. 2 the denouement of a drama. 3 a disastrous end; ruin. 4 an event producing a subversion of the order of things. Derivatives catastrophic adj. catastrophically adv. Etymology: L catastropha f. Gk katastrophe (as CATA-, strophe turning f. strepho turn) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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