Vocabulary
Catastrophe
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.
Urdu meaning
تباہی، آفت، انقلاب عظیم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Hindu nationalism has humiliated India and has put it on a slippery slope to a catastrophe.
- That might lead to reflection, anger, action and eventually deliverance from climate catastrophe and political evil.
- `That things are `status quo` is the catastrophe.
- The images of inundated fields in thousands of villages, displaced families, destroyed homes and dead livestock underscore the seriousness of the catastrophe.
- Each of them has seen a climaterelated catastrophe this summer.
Synonyms
disaster, calamity, cataclysm, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, tragedy, blow
Antonyms
salvation, godsend
Curator example
“an environmental catastrophe”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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