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How to pronounce cataclysm in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms catastrophe
Type of geological phenomenon
Has types nuclear winter
Type Words
Synonyms calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy
Type of misfortune, bad luck
Has types famine, force majeure, inevitable accident, kiss of death, meltdown, visitation, apocalypse, vis major, act of god, plague, tidal wave, tsunami, unavoidable casualty
Derivation cataclysmal, cataclysmic

Examples of cataclysm

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In fact, they fully expect the cataclysm of Armageddon within the next few years.
From the time.com
Mayor Randy Watts had earlier said Logan was not responsible for the cataclysm.
From the sltrib.com
This is a fatal combination in a region so prone to cataclysm as the Middle East.
From the infowars.com
Approximately a 70% of the Iloca's constructions were destroyed by the cataclysm.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Can the sense of the sea and its deities have survived the cataclysm unchanged?
From the en.wikipedia.org
In the world's press Egypt's cataclysm has begun to slide off the front pages.
From the economist.com
If Hall was a cataclysm, new free safety Calvin Lowry was a minor catastrophe.
From the denverpost.com
They see End Times interest rising and falling on waves of cataclysm and calm.
From the time.com
Chinese media outlets have been told to dampen coverage of the rumoured cataclysm.
From the guardian.co.uk
More examples
  • Catastrophe: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
  • Calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
  • (cataclysmal) severely destructive; "cataclysmic nuclear war"; "a cataclysmic earthquake"
  • In the Dragonlance books, the Cataclysm (Great Destruction) was a catastrophic event that occurred when the Kingpriest of Istar demanded to be given godlike powers in order to eliminate evil from the world.
  • Cataclysm is the name of a fictional character exclusive to the BotCon Transformers line.
  • A momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition
  • Upon the destruction of Exodus a great and powerful cataclysm shook the entire land of Sosaria totally reshaping the land into what we now called Britannia. Many people and beasts alike died in this great destructive time.
  • Any great upheaval in a cat's life.
  • A violent change, upheaval