📚 Calamity, noun. 🔉 /kəˈlamɪti/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress; a disaster. ❗️ Examples: 1. Emergency measures may be necessary in order to avert a calamity. 2. The journey had led to calamity and ruin. 3. Nearly every calamity and malady known to humankind has a saint to look after it. 4. Plan for stress, say the experts, just like you plan ahead for any calamity you want to avoid. 5. There were those indeed who believed this calamity marked the end of the world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic