n.
unexpected, unpleasant event
catastrophe
1) to have, meet with an ~ (they had an ~ during their trip)
2) to prevent ~s
3) an awful, bad, dreadful, frightful, horrible, nasty, serious, shocking; fatal; near; unavoidable; unfortunate ~
4) an automobile ( AE ), motorcar ( BE ); hit-and-run; hunting; industrial; railroad ( AE ), railway ( BE ), train ~
5) an ~ occurs, takes place (a bad ~ took place)
6) in an ~ (he was in a hunting ~)
chance
luck
7) pure, sheer ~
8) an ~ that + clause (it was pure ~ that we met)
9) by ~ (we discovered it by ~; it was by pure ~ that we found the money)