a sudden disaster or a violent event that causes change, for example a flood or a war to survive the cataclysm of the Black Death
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NAmE//ˌkæt̮əˈklɪzmɪk//
adjective [usually before noun]See cataclysm in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: cataclysm