0 (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty:
An inquiry was ordered into the recent rail disaster (= a serious train accident).
This is one of the worst natural disasters ever to befall the area.
Heavy and prolonged rain can spell disaster for many plants.
Everything was going smoothly until suddenly disaster struck.
Inviting James and Ivan to dinner on the same evening was a recipe for disaster (= caused a very difficult situation) - they always argue with each other.
As an engineer, he was a disaster.
2 a sudden event that causes a lot of damage, such as a very bad fire, storm, or accident:
3 an extremely bad situation that can destroy a company’s plans, success, or ability to operate:
The destruction of the rain forests is an ecological disaster.
The plane narrowly avoided disaster when one of the engines cut out on take-off.
Floods and earthquakes are natural disasters.
Thus, drought, one of the greatest natural disasters intermittently confronting the nation, was blamed on political conflicts within the royal family.
They are predictive in that one could use them with hypothetical disasters to predict what the most likely policy and political outcomes will be.
The states ensured that their peoples were able to regain the property that they regularly lost to natural disasters and to foreign invasion.
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