You use ~ to refer to changes, especially unpleasant ones, that happen to someone or something at different times in their life or development. (FORMAL)
Whatever the ~ of her past life, Jill now seems to have come through.
N-PLURAL: oft N of n
You use ~ to refer to changes, especially unpleasant ones, that happen to someone or something at different times in their life or development. (FORMAL)
Whatever the ~ of her past life, Jill now seems to have come through.
N-PLURAL: oft N of n
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012