Cataclysm and Extinction

Cataclysm

Cataclysm noun - A great flow of water or of something that overwhelms.

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Extinction and cataclysm are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Extinction" instead a noun "Cataclysm".

Nearby Word: cataclysmic

Extinction noun - The state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless.

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Cataclysm and extinction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cataclysm" instead a noun "Extinction".

Nearby Word: extinct

old	old cataclysm	old extinction
natural	natural cataclysm	natural extinction
massive	massive cataclysm	massive extinction
novel	novel cataclysm	novel extinction
Other adjectives: titled, major, planetary, mysterious, subsequent, impending, local, recent, devastating, global, worldwide, engineered.

More specifically, it posits that this is the actual origin of platypi; their planet was in for a major, extinction-level cataclysm, so platypus genetics were encoded into some microbes.

Source: Everything's Better with Platypi
The upcoming Godzilla IDW comic, Godzilla: Cataclysm is set in a Mad Max-esque world where humanity is on the verge of extinction due a Kaiju apocalypse.

Source: After The End / Comic Books
Canonically the Overlord saves the Elves from extinction since they're still around in the sequel while the Dwarves are presumably devastated by the magical Cataclysm that turned the lands of the first game into a magical wasteland.

Source: Elves vs. Dwarves

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