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cataclysms

cataclysms is the plural of cataclysm.

Meaning of cataclysm

Noun

cataclysm (plural cataclysms)

  1. A sudden, violent event.
    • While the disaster capitalism complex does not deliberately scheme to create cataclysms on which it feeds (though Iraq may be a notable exception), there is plenty of evidence that its component industries work very hard indeed to make that current disastrous trends continue unchallenged.2007, Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, →ISBN, page 427
  2. A sudden and violent change in the earth's crust.
  3. A great flood.

Questions about cataclysms

What is cataclysms the plural of?
Cataclysms is the plural of cataclysm.

Words near cataclysms in the dictionary

  1. cataclysmic
  2. cataclysmical
  3. cataclysmically
  4. cataclysmist
  5. cataclysmists
  6. cataclysms
  7. catacomb
  8. catacombic
  9. catacombs
  10. catacorner
  11. catacorolla

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