calamity
a great misfortune or disaster, as a flood or serious injury.
grievous affliction; adversity; misery: the calamity of war.
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How to use calamity in a sentence
calamity,” Roth writes elsewhere, “when it comes, comes in a rush.
American Dreams: How Bush Shaped Our Reading of Roth’s ‘The Plot Against America’ | Nathaniel Rich | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCorruption, suspicion, and a lack of doctors all add up to a growing calamity in Freetown.
In Sierra Leone, the Plague Is Closing in Around Us | Ned Eustace | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOpposingly, White believed it would take cathartic calamity to trigger meaningful change.
These facts cast a new nightmarish tint to an already overwhelming public health calamity.
This weekend these war memories now flow into another historical calamity, the outbreak of World War I, 100 years ago.
Life Under Air Strikes: Children Under Fire Will Never Forget — or Forgive | Clive Irving | August 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
She waited for no further formalities, but shaken with the sure foreboding of calamity, turned and fled the room.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonEthel's understanding perceived, but her mind refused to grasp the extent of the calamity.
The Daisy Chain | Charlotte YongeThe destruction of Moab is near to come: the calamity thereof shall come on exceeding swiftly.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousI became keenly aware of the dreadful psychic calamity it involved.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodOwing to their strange appearance, comets were to the ancients omens of calamity.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
British Dictionary definitions for calamity
/ (kəˈlæmɪtɪ) /
a disaster or misfortune, esp one causing extreme havoc, distress, or misery
a state or feeling of deep distress or misery
Origin of calamity
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