apocalypse
/əˈpɑk·əˌlɪps/ n [C/U]Definition
› an event resulting in great destruction and violent change: Nobody was artistically better prepared to deal with the watery apocalypse that followed Hurricane Katrina than this 75-year-old man. › In the Bible, the Apocalypse is the total destruction of the world.
(Definition of apocalypse n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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