natural disaster

noun

: a sudden and terrible event in nature (such as a hurricane, tornado, or flood) that usually results in serious damage and many deaths

The earthquake was one of the worst natural disasters of this century.

Examples of natural disaster in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Whether a disruption is caused by an outage, a cyber event, a natural disaster or another form of downtime, the chaos that such an event can induce may leave your employees, executives and board members reeling. —Jonathan Lerner, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025

The State Department considers various factors—such as crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health, likelihood of a natural disaster and current events—when issuing advisories to alert American travelers about a country's safety level. —Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025

And the number of productions has continued to plummet, even with the natural disasters only having a minimal impact on regional filming. —Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 13 May 2025

The report recommended that government authorities develop communication and messaging templates like those used in other natural disaster situations such as hurricanes. —Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 9 May 2025

Rhymes for natural disaster

• aster
• blaster
• caster
• castor
• faster
• gaster
• laster
• master
• paster
• pastor
• plaster
• raster