apocalypse

About 1.66 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A revealing, especially a prophecy of, or the unfolding of, supernatural events. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   The early development of Perl 6 was punctuated by a series of apocalypses by Larry Wall.

2. noun A huge disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin of large scope and scale.

   A nuclear apocalypse would have been possible if tensions went out of control during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

3. noun The unveiling of events prophesied in the Revelation; the second coming and the end of life on Earth; global destruction.
4. noun The Book of Revelation.
5. verb To reveal.
6. verb To dwell on a huge disaster one expects to take place.
7. verb To bring about (a huge disaster).

Similar words

revelation armageddon doom grip revelations stuff devastation catastrophe cataclysm eschaton

Often followed by

of now and is in was as to that

Word family

Apocalypse Apocalypses apocalypses