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Noun: calamity  ku'la-mi-tee
  1. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"
    - catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm

Derived forms: calamities

See also: calamitous

Type of: bad luck, misfortune

Encyclopedia: Calamity