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Webster 1913 Edition
Catastrophe
Ca-tas′tro-phe
,Noun.
[L.
catastropha
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to turn up and down, to overturn; κατά
down + [GREEK] to turn.] 1.
An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune.
The strange
catastrophe
of affairs now at London. Bp. Burnet.
The most horrible and portentous
catastrophe
that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.
2.
The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
3.
(Geol.)
A violent and widely extended change in the surface of the earth,
as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes
. Whewell.
Webster 1828 Edition
Catastrophe
CATASTROPHE
,Definition 2024
catastrophé
catastrophé
See also: catastrophe and catastrophë
French
Verb
catastrophé m (feminine singular catastrophée, masculine plural catastrophés, feminine plural catastrophées)
- past participle of catastropher