calamity

Converse of object

• avert: But, notwithstanding that obstacle, might he not, if he had seen fit, have found means to avert the calamity?
• suffer: In like manner didst Thou visit Thy holy martyrs which suffered great calamity.
• avoid: Pillars inserted to avoid calamity are said to have come from the timbers of Spanish Galleons sunk in the Armada.
• prevent: PEARSON: Well, what needs to be in place to prevent another such calamity?

Preposition: against

• backdrop: Loosely linked sketches and tableaux depicting personal calamity against a backdrop of social breakdown and apocalyptic despair.

Adjective modifier

• dreadful: It was not for long, however; for a month or two later a dreadful calamity fell upon Marija.
• impending: All those prophecies of impending calamity were outright bollocks, of course.
• dire: To him the Reform Bill came as a dire calamity, and the repeal of the Corn Laws was an unpardonable atrocity.
• terrible: SHAKIR: And what will make you comprehend what the terrible calamity is?
• natural: In Romania there was a big natural calamity - water floods on 75 % of our state territory.

Modifies a noun

• strike: When serious calamity strikes with it come the doubts, the fears and the struggles of dealing with it.

Preposition: of

• war: If a garrison be never assaulted, it is no wonder that it standeth exempt from the calamity of war.

Preposition: for

• people: Friend is right that those who argue for independence would bring about an economic calamity for the people of Scotland.