Vocabulary
Catastrophe
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
an event causing great and usually sudden damage or suffering; a disaster.
Urdu meaning
تباہی، آفت، انقلاب عظیم
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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The warning lies not in one singular catastrophe, but in the piling up of shocks.
Dawn Editorials —
Danger on repeat
— 2026-04-26
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Until then, the status quo suits them fine.Some early signs of the arrival of the economic catastrophe they are trying to bring about have begun to emerge.
Dawn Editorials —
How it ends
— 2026-04-23
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And as Donald Trump grew desperate to avoid a catastrophe in the oil market, by late March his administration had issued sanctions waivers for Russian oil as well as some Iranian oil.
Dawn Editorials —
Paper oil
— 2026-04-16
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The most ruinous war of our time was ended before it could escalate into a catastrophe.
Dawn Editorials —
War and peace
— 2026-04-09
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Without investment in climate adaptation, rural infrastructure and social protection, we will continue to oscillate between stress and crisis never quite tipping into catastrophe, but never escaping fragility either.
Dawn Editorials —
Fragile equilibrium
— 2026-02-23
Synonyms
disaster, calamity, cataclysm, crisis, holocaust, ruin, ruination, tragedy, blow
Antonyms
salvation, godsend
Curator example
“an environmental catastrophe”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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