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catastrophically /katəˈstrɒfɪk(ə)li /adverb1In a way that involves great damage, suffering, or deterioration in state: tropical forests are being catastrophically destroyed...- Sitting in the middle of the middle, the port city has been squeezed particularly hard, most catastrophically during World War II.
- It was said that the power grid could fail catastrophically by 2005.
- The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes.
1.1 [as submodifier] To an extremely unsuccessful extent: the film is catastrophically bad 1.2 Geology In a way that results from a natural disaster: two fossil specimens appear to have been buried together catastrophically...- First I will present evidence that the geological column was laid down rapidly and catastrophically.
- He has shown that all types of geological structures, formations, and systems were formed catastrophically.
- Was the Black Sea catastrophically flooded in the early Holocene?
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