(n.) 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.
(n.) The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a comedy.
(n.) 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.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it was grown, it would bring both ecstasy and catastrophe to women.
(2) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(3) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(4) Strict precautions are necessary to prevent the catastrophic events resulting from inadvertent gentamicin injection; such precautions should include precise labeling of all injectable solutions on the surgical field, waiting to draw up injectable antibiotics until the time they are needed, and drawing up injectable antibiotics under direct physician observation.
(5) In contrast, the 2009 report, "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment" , published by the New York Academy of Sciences, comes to a very different conclusion.
(6) As a result, low-lying areas, including Bangladesh, Florida, the Maldives and the Netherlands, will undergo catastrophic flooding, while in Britain large areas of the Norfolk Broads and the Thames estuary could disappear.
(7) It is found that, in contrast to most metallic materials yet in keeping with many ceramics, there are no distinct fracture morphologies in pyro-carbons which are characteristic of a specific mode of loading; fracture surfaces appear to be identical for both catastrophic and subcritical crack growth under either sustained or cyclic loading.
(8) In the midst of this catastrophe, the troika is insisting on further austerity to achieve massive primary budget surpluses of 3% in 2015, 4.5% in 2016 and even more in future years.
(9) The first report, released last September in Stockholm , found humans were the "dominant cause" of climate change, and warned that much of the world's fossil fuel reserves would have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.
(10) "We believe that such a path would be catastrophic for the UK, for Europe and for the protection of human rights around the world."
(11) A large number of flight accidents and catastrophes associated with the human factor, high nervous and psychic tension when being on duty, increasing trend towards a greater incidence of psychogenic diseases responsible for pilots to be grounded make it necessary to develop a system of primary psychoprophylaxis of the flying personnel and to help them with various social, psychohygienic and psychoprophylactic measures.
(12) This would sound gilded, except here is Klebold, revisiting every detail in a way that implies it might have been easier on her psychologically if there had been a catastrophe in the household, something pointing to why Dylan did what he did.
(13) Self-help groups can aid an individual in coping with and adapting to catastrophic illness.
(14) Catastrophes, though always regrettable, must be seen as experiments demanding careful analysis and exploitation.
(15) This set was called by the authors a syndrome reflecting an overpowering, but latent, unconscious sense of crisis, of a catastrophe ("Catastrophe-syndrome").
(16) But Blair's address - "history will forgive us" - was a dubious exercise in group therapy: the cheers smacked of pathetic gratitude, as he piously pardoned the legislators, as well as himself, for the catastrophe of Iraq.
(17) I argue that (a) the procedures they used to study confounding were suboptimal because multiple measures of depression and catastrophizing were not employed and (b) the distinctiveness of constructs might better be regarded as a continuous rather than all-or-none (having adequate discriminant validity versus being confounded) concept.
(18) Newborn infants with congenital homozygous protein C deficiency develop catastrophic thrombosis (purpura fulminans) and will not survive beyond the neonatal period without protein C replacement.
(19) But the humanitarian catastrophes in Syria have been overshadowed by stories about Islamic State .
(20) We do not anticipate major impact on psychiatric tasks from some form of catastrophic insurance.
(v. t.) That to which one is doomed or sentenced; destiny or fate, esp. unhappy destiny; penalty.
(v. t.) Ruin; death.
(v. t.) Discriminating opinion or judgment; discrimination; discernment; decision.
(v. t.) To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge.
(v. t.) To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn; to consign by a decree or sentence; to sentence; as, a criminal doomed to chains or death.
(v. t.) To ordain as penalty; hence, to mulct or fine.
(v. t.) To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion.
(v. t.) To destine; to fix irrevocably the destiny or fate of; to appoint, as by decree or by fate.
Example Sentences:
(1) NGOs and even the Red Crescent are unwelcome: peacekeepers are rebuffed, hospitals doomed to failure.
(2) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(3) The doom-laden voiceover claims Miliband could only secure power through a deal with the SNP and that Salmond would be able to “call the tune”.
(4) With the White House backing away and fellow Republicans openly considering successors, Mr Lott's hard-fought campaign to sit out the controversy appeared doomed.
(5) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(6) Dombey treads proudly towards his doom with the author's unheard warnings ringing in his ears.
(7) Rather than suggest paid-for content was doomed, they called for a new model to collect revenues.
(8) Ross loved a girl of 17, so he married her when he was 28; a field-day for predictors of doom who must now be bewildered that two decades and three children proved them wrong.
(9) Iran’s supreme leader has accused Saudi Arabia of committing genocide in Yemen and said air strikes against Houthi rebels are doomed to fail, in a sharp escalation of tensions between the two rivals over the outcome of yet another bruising conflict in the Middle East.
(10) Stephen King tried it, and gave up the effort because he thought it was doomed.
(11) We did not all travel together because I want focus in my squad.” Louis van Gaal was doomed at Manchester United by refusal to adapt | Amy Lawrence Read more Alan Pardew was a disappointed runner-up, as might be expected, though at least he did not have to face questions about not being in the same job next season.
(12) Lord of the Rings made him the doomed anti-hero , he was easily the best thing in the disastrous Troy, giving Odysseus guile, wit and that familiar, rough-edged charm, and he terrified TV viewers as property developer John Dawson in the dark and brilliant Red Riding .
(13) Hemsworth cut his chops on Home And Away before quitting in 2007, moving to LA and almost immediately being cast as Kirk's doomed dad in JJ Abrams 's Star Trek.
(14) There has to be a better way.” I n the winter of 2013, soon after Hartgerink began working with Van Assen, they began to investigate another social psychology researcher who they noticed was reporting suspiciously large effect sizes, one of the “tells” that doomed Stapel.
(15) : "Of all the cells you've been in, your first cell is a very special one, the place where you first encountered others like yourself, doomed to the same fate.
(16) Although it's not nearly as surprising as the Pittsburgh Pirates fighting toward the playoffs after 20 years of losing seasons , or the Kansas City Royals playing meaningful, September baseball for the first time in over a decade , but since stealing manager John Farrell away from the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox have established themselves as the best team in the American League despite preseason predictions dooming them to repeat as the worst.
(17) Unfortunately, the commercials are so bland and empty that they’re almost certainly doomed to failure.
(18) • Facebook gets in a row with games firm Zenimax over who actually owns key parts of technology behind Oculus Rift, with Doom-creator John Carmack at its heart
(19) Despite fears that large carnivores are doomed to extinction because of rising human populations and overconsumption, a study published in Science has found that large predator populations are stable or rising in Europe.
(20) Clegg urged the Conservatives not to shift to the right in a doomed bid to head off Ukip.