APOCALYPSE

[noun] [U] - a very serious event resulting in great destruction and changeThe book offers a vision of the future in which there is a great nuclear apocalypse.If the factory closes it will make the town an industrial wasteland - to avoid an apocalypse of this kind we must attract new industry.The Apocalypse is a religious idea of the total destruction of the world .The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were imaginary people thought to spread war, conquest, rough justice and death in the world.