On the anniversary of the cataclysm, there was an upsurge in zombie attacks.
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Cataclysm
//ˈkætəˌklɪzm̩//
Synonyms for "cataclysm" (106 found)
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44 translations across 25 languages.
Armenian
3 entries- կատակլիզմ noun (sudden, violent event)
- կատակլիզմ noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- հեղեղում noun (great flood)
Belarusian
1 entries- катаклі́зм noun (sudden, violent event)
Catalan
2 entries- cataclisme noun (sudden, violent event)
- cataclisme noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 激變 /激变 noun (sudden, violent event)
Czech
1 entries- kataklyzma noun (sudden, violent event)
Esperanto
1 entries- kataklismo noun (sudden, violent event)
Finnish
4 entries- kataklysmi noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- luonnonmullistus noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- mullistus noun (sudden, violent event)
- suurtulva noun (great flood)
French
1 entries- cataclysme noun (sudden, violent event)
Galician
2 entries- cataclismo noun (sudden, violent event)
- cataclismo noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
Georgian
1 entries- კატაკლიზმა noun (sudden, violent event)
German
3 entries- Kataklysmus noun (sudden, violent event)
- Kataklysmus noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- katastrophales Ereignis noun (sudden, violent event)
Greek
1 entries- κατακλυσμός noun (sudden, violent event)
Italian
1 entries- cataclisma noun (sudden, violent event)
Japanese
3 entries- 大洪水 noun (great flood)
- 激変 noun (sudden, violent event)
- 激変 noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
Macedonian
3 entries- катакли́зма noun (sudden, violent event)
- катакли́зма noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- по́топ noun (great flood)
Manx
1 entries- coleaystey mooar noun (sudden, violent event)
Polish
1 entries- kataklizm noun (sudden, violent event)
Portuguese
1 entries- cataclisma noun (sudden, violent event)
Romanian
4 entries- cataclism noun (sudden, violent event)
- cataclism noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- inundație noun (great flood)
- potop noun (great flood)
Russian
3 entries- катакли́зм noun (sudden, violent event)
- катакли́зм noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
- пото́п noun (great flood)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- kataklizma noun (sudden, violent event)
- катаклизма noun (sudden, violent event)
Spanish
1 entries- cataclismo noun (sudden and violent change in the earth's crust)
Swedish
1 entries- kataklysm noun (sudden, violent event)
Ukrainian
1 entries- катаклі́зм noun (sudden, violent event)
Urdu
1 entries- قیامت noun (sudden, violent event)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tom lives in constant fear of a cataclysm.
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Tom inadvertently caused the cataclysm.
Source: tatoeba (11097581)
For 135 million years, dinosaurs ruled the Earth as the dominant terrestrial vertebrates, from about 200 million years ago until the cataclysm that wiped them out 66 million years ago.
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