Collapse
Disaster
Disaster noun - A sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction.
Usage example: hurricanes are natural disasters
Collapse is a synonym for disaster in crash topic. Sometimes you can use "Collapse" instead a noun "Disaster", if it concerns topics such as accident.
Nearby Word: disastrous
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| complete | complete collapse | complete disaster |
| utter | utter collapse | utter disaster |
| total | total collapse | total disaster |
| actual | actual collapse | actual disaster |
| Other adjectives: entire, real, massive, great, ultimate, major, planetary, political, catastrophic, military, inevitable, subsequent, impending, imminent, unspecified, resulting, ensuing, economic, financial, nuclear, global, ecological, worldwide, technological, environmental. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The entire first chapter is dedicated to him... and he dies in a car accident on the last page of it, long before the book's disaster (the collapse of a glass elevator) even occurs.
Source: Literature / Final Destination -
It's finally spelled out in The Millennium Girl that the disaster of 1000 years ago is (major spoilers) our world's ecological collapse.
Source: Video Game / Etrian Odyssey -
Disaster Dominoes: Kevin's shoving of Buzz in the second movie somehow causes an entire choir to collapse as they grab each other while falling.
Source: Film / Home Alone
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