tragedy

tragedy
noun
1 event/situation that causes great sadness
ADJECTIVE
▪ absolute, appalling (esp. BrE), awful, big, enormous, great, horrible, horrific, major, real, terrible, unspeakable
▪ family, human, personal, private
▪ national
▪ recent
VERB + TRAGEDY
▪ end in
▪

A family's outing ended in tragedy when their boat capsized.

▪ be dogged by (esp. BrE), experience, face, suffer
▪ cause
▪

We don't know what caused the tragedy.

▪ avert, avoid, prevent
▪ overcome
▪ survive
▪ see, witness
▪ exploit
TRAGEDY + VERB
▪ befall sb, happen, occur, strike (sb)
▪

Tragedy struck when their eight-year-old daughter was knocked down by a car.

▪ unfold
▪

She had seen the tragedy unfold.

▪ affect sb/sth, touch sb
PREPOSITION
▪ tragedy for sb
▪

The closure of the factory is a tragedy for the whole community.

2 serious play with a sad ending
ADJECTIVE
▪ classical, Greek, Jacobean, Shakespearean
▪ revenge
VERB + TRAGEDY
▪ write

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