catastrophe

Converse of object

• avert: I had no real sense of a great catastrophe averted.
• loom: Prior to our forming a government, we will fight tooth and nail against the looming catastrophe of forced integration within secondary schools.
• prevent: In the process every conventional doctrine about markets was amended to prevent catastrophe.
• survive: The USSR will not survive this unprecedented catastrophe ( .. .
• spell: This will spell further catastrophe for many hard working families.
• avoid: To avoid such catastrophes who can the budding business entrepreneur turn to for help?

Adjective modifier

• humanitarian: The reason for the bombing was the humanitarian catastrophe brought about by the bombing in the first place.
• impending: Are such concessions not totally disproportionate to the extent of the impending catastrophe to which you have alluded?
• ecological: The greatest ecological catastrophes have occurred through the introduction of alien species.
• cosmic: In it is an illustration of his idea that the ancients were visited upon by cosmic catastrophes often.
• imminent: When I began these experiments my motivation was our fear of an imminent ecological catastrophe and a nuclear war in Europe.
• man-made: By any measure, the Second World War was the greatest man-made catastrophe of all time.

Preposition: on

scale: That is a catastrophe on the scale of the tsunami every week.

Modifies a noun

• reinsurance: Prudential financial inc senior managers for decades determine in advance loss catastrophe reinsurance.
• theory: We cannot just retrace out steps, we may have to follow the system trajectory; the breaking of the wave in catastrophe theory.
• bond: They also suggest the development of new instruments such as weather derivatives and catastrophe bonds.
• strike: You can't plan for them all but getting your finances into a manageable state now could stave off real problems should catastrophe strike.

Preposition: of

proportion: This truly has turned into a catastrophe of immense proportion.

Noun used with modifier

• tsunami: Asia Bus Response is a fine example of the British public's solidarity with the victims of the tsunami catastrophe.
• climate: No climate catastrophe is recorded in the history of those periods.