DRAMATIC EVENT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

Synonyms:

drama; dramatic event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("dramatic event" is a kind of...):

episode (a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dramatic event"):

night terror (an emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings)

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