Usually means: Sudden, severe, large-scale disastrous events.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastrophes: Merriam-Webster
  2. catastrophes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. catastrophes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Catastrophes, catastrophe's, catastrophes: Wordnik
  5. catastrophes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. catastrophes: Wiktionary
  7. catastrophes: Dictionary.com
  8. catastrophes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Catastrophes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Catastrophes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catastrophes: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Catastrophes: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. catastrophes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Catastrophes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See catastrophe as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (catastrophe)

noun:  Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
noun:  (insurance) A disaster beyond expectations.
noun:  (narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
noun:  (mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
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