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Meanings of
cataclysmal
in English
Being severely destructive.
devastating
cataclysmic
Related terms
destructive
Synonyms
Examples for "
devastating
"
devastating
cataclysmic
Examples for "
devastating
"
1
Of course, that onetime injection has a
devastating
long-term cost: climate change.
2
The wrong words at the wrong time can create
devastating
emotional scars.
3
However, experts say this won't be enough to end the
devastating
war.
4
Lewis' verdict for the future of the global oil industry is
devastating
.
5
This year is set to become the most
devastating
season since 2001.
1
You've suffered a
cataclysmic
loss, Emma, and we're going to help you.
2
She imagined herself as traveling in a new orbit, amid
cataclysmic
forces.
3
An old pike immediately brings to mind the
cataclysmic
violence of 1798.
4
And it's not any reason to have a
cataclysmic
bust-up, Christine said.
5
It had a
cataclysmic
effect on Edward, now the only remaining brother.
Usage of
cataclysmal
in English
1
Ten seconds later this
cataclysmal
lunatic had reverted to sanity- arathersheepish sanity.
2
This
cataclysmal
desire drew me by day and by night.
3
Perhaps she's so deaf that nothing short of a
cataclysmal
uproar will reach her auditory nerves.'
4
The
cataclysmal
force to which we owe
5
He says it was bloodcurdling, horrible,
cataclysmal
.
6
Miss Quincey was quite shaken by this
cataclysmal
outbreak, this overturning and shattering of the old beacons and landmarks.
7
Some
cataclysmal
upheaval would seem to account for such disrupture rather than the infinitely slow processes suggested by geological history.
8
You must figure the tumult suddenly striking on the unstable equilibrium of old Fletcher's planks and two
chairs
,
-
with
cataclysmal
results.
9
Nothing short of the
cataclysmal
end of the world could have provided drama to match the stupendous stage-setting of that stormy sky.
10
In fact she's given the album the hardly less
cataclysmal
title Mother Of Gloom, a phrase cribbed from a Martha Wainwright song.
11
But geologists are becoming more and more loath to call in the
cataclysmal
to explain any feature of the topography of the land.
12
Very rarely is there a spate, an upheaval, and a
cataclysmal
sweep that bursts the ice and ends its reign in an hour or two.
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Frequent collocations
cataclysmal end
cataclysmal outbreak
cataclysmal results
cataclysmal sweep
cataclysmal upheaval
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