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disaster
Found in thesaurus: adversity, hard knocks, hardship, misfortune, bad luck, destruction, devastation
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disaster
n.
catastrophe, misfortune, calamity
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Disaster
A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources.
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Disaster!
Disaster!: A Major Motion Picture Ride...Starring You! was a dark ride partial tram tour and at Universal Studios Florida. Set on a soundstage of a fictitious movie company, Disaster! was a based on the park's former ride, which comically illustrates how special effects are filmed for use in movies. The attraction's climax casted the riders as movie extras for a movie finale scene involving an earthquake in a subway station. Using high-speed editing techniques, the riders got to see themselves in the form of a movie trailer that included film sequences shot throughout the attraction's pre-show and main ride.
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disaster
Noun
1. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
(synonym) catastrophe
(hypernym) adversity, hardship, hard knocks
2. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
(synonym) calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm
(hypernym) misfortune, bad luck
(hyponym) act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
3. an act that has disastrous consequences
(hypernym) destruction, devastation
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disaster
n.
katastrofa; pohroma; fiasko
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disaster
Rzecz.
klęska; katastrofa; katastrofa; klęska; klęski żywiołowe; oznacza kastastrofę
