Crisis
['kraɪsɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something; 'after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better'.
(noun.) an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; 'they went bankrupt during the economic crisis'.
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The point of time when it is to be decided whether any affair or course of action must go on, or be modified or terminate; the decisive moment; the turning point.
(n.) That change in a disease which indicates whether the result is to be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change of symptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption or sweat.
Edited by Diana
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Acme, height, decisive turn, turning point.[2]. Exigency, emergency, juncture, conjuncture, pass, strait, rub, pinch, push, critical situation.
Editor: Roxanne
Definition
n. point or time for deciding anything the decisive moment or turning-point:—pl. Crises (krī′sēz).
Checked by Andrew
Examples
- A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The crisis was serious. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He was off in one of those hysterical outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis is over and gone. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- She felt as if the spring would not pass without bringing a crisis, an event, a something to alter her present composed and tranquil state. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It's a worse crisis than you think for, I can tell you. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Public attention was shifted and a political crisis avoided. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The sergeant and I were in the kitchen when Mrs. Joe stood staring; at which crisis I partially recovered the use of my senses. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Statesmanship would go out to meet a crisis before it had become acute. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Things must come to a crisis soon now. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Would you do me the favour, miss, to take notice o' two promises and wows wot it is my wishes fur to record in this here crisis? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She was then in attendance on the sick-bed of her husband, who lay delirious in the crisis of a fever. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But I must run away now--I have no end of work now--it's a crisis--a political crisis, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But things are not coming to a crisis immediately. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That I retired to bed in a most maudlin state of mind, and got up in a crisis of feeble infatuation. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The worst is, the wasps are impudent enough to dispute it with one, even at the very crisis and summit of enjoyment. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- There may be mysterious workings of the human mind, such as occur only at great crises of history. Plato. The Republic.
- She was, at such crises, sadly deficient in finished manner, though she had once been at school a year. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So the burden of national crises is squarely upon the dominant classes who fight so foolishly against the emergent ones. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Yet I do not wish to furnish the impression that crises are negligible. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The final result of the incident is that it proves more plainly than ever how unequal I am to certain crises. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In such crises of readjustment--and the crisis may be slight as well as great--there may be a transitional conflict of principle with interest. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Checker: Merle