disaster areanoun
uk/dɪˈzɑː.stər ˌeə.ri.ə/us/dɪˈzæs.tɚ ˌer.i.ə/[ C usually singular ] a place where a very serious accident, such as an earthquake, has happened
[ S ] humorous an extremely untidy, dirty, or badly organized place:
After the party, the house was a complete disaster area.
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Accidents and disasters
- a knockout blow idiom
- accident
- accidental
- accidentally
- accidentally on purpose idiom
- banana skin
- calamity
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- debacle
- disastrous
- emergency
- forest fire
- holocaust
- knockout
- meltdown
- misadventure
- snafu
- the devil to pay idiom
- tragedy
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