7
crash(noun, ruin, disaster, catastrophe, calamity)
7
misery(noun, trouble, ruin, blow, distress)
6
dolor(noun, disaster, catastrophe, adversity, calamity)
6
grief(noun, trouble, ruin, distress, collapse)
6
ordeal(noun, trouble, hardship, adversity, happening)
6
shock(noun, upset, disaster, catastrophe, surprise)
5
buskin(noun, art, performance, piece)
5
doom(noun, unpleasant, lot, disaster, catastrophe)
5
tribulation(noun, trouble, blow, distress, cross)
5
unluckiness(noun, disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, calamity)
5
visitation(noun, blow, cross, failure, disaster)
4
apocalypse(noun, destruction, disaster, catastrophe, fate)
4
agony(noun, distress, sadness, anguish, adversity)
4
anguish(noun, distress, sadness, grief, affliction)
4
bad luck(noun, expression, idiom, break, ruin)
4
collapse(noun, ruin, disaster, catastrophe, upheaval)
4
crisis(noun, performance, bad, event, play)
4
death(noun, lot, disaster, catastrophe, downfall)
4
debacle(noun, upset, trouble, ruin, blow)
4
destruction(noun, evil, lot, disaster, catastrophe)
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