Usually means: Exaggerating problems into extreme disasters.
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  1. catastrophize: Merriam-Webster
  2. catastrophize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catastrophize: Wiktionary
  4. catastrophize: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. catastrophize: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (catastrophize)

verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To regard a bad situation as if it were disastrous or catastrophic.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, psychology) To expose a behaviour pattern of seeking worst interpretation and magnifying disagreeable outcomes (of).
verb:  (obsolete) To end a comedy.

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