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noun
A greater force; an act of God; an unavoidable accident.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: law
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
History
Learned borrowing from Latin vīs maior.
