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Offline Quantus

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Need Thesaurus help
« on: March 12, 2008, 08:40:47 PM »
OK, Im trying to find words that fit each of the four elements and denote a massive upheaval or destructive event.  So far I have:

Deluge for water, Conflagration for Fire, Maelstrom for Air...

Im stuck on earth. 


Any ideas?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2008, 08:43:00 PM »
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2008, 08:43:59 PM »
Not so sure about maelstrom for air, though.    Maybe I read too much Poe.
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2008, 10:09:59 PM »
Actually, if you look up the dictionary definition of maelstrom, it's a whirlpool, more than anything to do with air.  But then that's just dictionary definition; used in context, it could be like you want.  As for earth, the most I could come up with was earthquake.  Couldn't think of much else.
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« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2008, 10:14:58 PM »
Isn't it weird that he can't use 'cataclysm' for flood?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2008, 03:01:34 AM »
Quote from: Starbeam on March 12, 2008, 10:09:59 PM
Actually, if you look up the dictionary definition of maelstrom, it's a whirlpool, more than anything to do with air.  But then that's just dictionary definition; used in context, it could be like you want.  As for earth, the most I could come up with was earthquake.  Couldn't think of much else.
For air, I'd think more "vortex" than "maelstrom". In terms of destructive earth events, I'd think "eruption" or "cataclysm".
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2008, 03:34:44 AM »
Quote from: Quantus347 on March 12, 2008, 08:40:47 PM
OK, Im trying to find words that fit each of the four elements and denote a massive upheaval or destructive event.  So far I have:

Deluge for water, Conflagration for Fire, Maelstrom for Air...

Im stuck on earth. 


Any ideas?

Earthquake?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2008, 12:24:00 PM »
Quote from: MonaLS on March 14, 2008, 03:34:44 AM
Earthquake?
Too specific.  Same with avalanche.  Im looking for none specific earth-based destruction.  :-\
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2008, 06:03:53 PM »
Upheaval?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2008, 06:04:54 PM »
What about eruption, like a volcano?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2008, 09:13:30 PM »
Quote from: Quantus347 on March 14, 2008, 12:24:00 PM
Too specific.  Same with avalanche.  Im looking for none specific earth-based destruction.  :-\
"eructation" seems to work. My Unabridged has as a reference, "Mount Aetna hath, in times past, eructated such huge goblets of fire. . . - Howell."
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2008, 05:29:08 AM »
For earth? Hmm. How about something a bit off-the-wall, such as 'decrustation'?  As others have said, it's all in the context.  Disintegrate, crumble, pulverise...
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2008, 05:29:06 PM »
Rush, spate, torrent, barrage, outpour, fall, sweep, crash?
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Re: Need Thesaurus help
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2008, 02:13:43 PM »
something more...Grand *holds up fist in display of Might*  :P
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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2008, 07:05:09 PM »
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