Extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin.
Causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin.
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Examples for "catastrophic "
Examples for "catastrophic "
1 A family crisis, perhaps, or some catastrophic event at a critical age.
2 However, there is no catastrophic internal injury, its main organs remain functional.
3 In April 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown.
4 This Shackleton affair is the first catastrophic breach in Area 51's history.
5 The purpose of a post-Kyoto deal is to avoid catastrophic climate change.
1 Was he perhaps in possession of ruinous information about those in power?
2 Any variation in either the speed or the course might be ruinous .
3 Dairy farmers say milk supports failed to stop a ruinous price plunge.
4 For startup founders in particular, such a tax bill could be ruinous .
5 The multitude of servants in a Polish establishment must have been ruinous .
6 The mill never prospered, and has long been in a ruinous condition.
7 Harm was done, certainly; but not to the ruinous extent sometimes declared.
8 All of this was dangerous, possibly even ruinous , and not only financially.
9 There is a church, but it is in a very ruinous condition.
10 Rawnsley records a ruinous obsession with reining in a perfectly reliable chancellor.
11 The academic WE would have a far greater and more ruinous influence.
12 So a ruinous conflict was introduced into the soul of Gustav Mahler.
13 Ignorance is not only ruinous to the individual, but destructive to society.
14 But the time such a self-healing proceeding would occupy might be ruinous .
15 And he may drag this impoverished land into his ruinous Habsburg wars.
16 Rum was judged pernicious to health, and ruinous to the infant settlement.
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