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catastrophe 1. Theatre the denouement of a play, esp a classical tragedy 2. any sudden and violent change in the earth's surface caused by flooding, earthquake, or some other rapid process |
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He felt that the condition he was in could not continue long, that a catastrophe was coming which would change his whole life, and he impatiently sought everywhere for signs of that approaching catastrophe. Like the Odyssey, it has a double thread of plot, and also an opposite catastrophe for the good and for the bad. But everybody knew how perfect an instrument her voice was; and there was no display of anger, but only of horror and dismay, the sort of dismay which men would have felt if they had witnessed the catastrophe that broke the arms of the Venus de Milo. |
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