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adversity, affliction, bale, bane, blight, blunder, breakdown, brutum fulmen, calamitas, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, clades, collapse, contretemps, crushing reverse, deabacle, devastation, downfall, emergency, extremity, failure, fell stroke, fiasco, great misfortune, great mishap, hard blow, harm, holocaust, misadventure, miscarriage, misery, misfortune, misventure, nasty blow, ravage, ruin, ruination, ruinousness, scourge, setback, sudden misfortune, terrible accident, tragedy, travail, trouble, undoing, unfortunate event, upheaval, upset, woe
associated concepts: common disaster
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abortion (fiasco), accident (misfortune), adversity, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, fatality, loss, misfortune, tragedy
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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