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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
cataclysm /ˈkatəˌklɪz(ə)m/
▶noun a violent upheaval or disaster.
– derivatives
cataclysmic adjective,
cataclysmically adverb.
cataclysmic adjective,
cataclysmically adverb.
– origin C17 (orig. denoting the biblical Flood): from Fr. cataclysme, via L. from Gk kataklusmos ‘deluge’.
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