crisis

Definition

  • noun: a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention
  • noun: the turning point for better or worse in an acute disease or fever

Examples

  • Most people blame the government for the country's worsening economic/financial/fiscal 'crisis'.

  • an energy/fuel/water 'crisis' [=a time when there is not enough energy/fuel/water]

  • a 'hostage crisis' [=a situation in which someone is holding people as hostages]

Movie quotes

  • (..) For the end of June the crises world they were increased. Almost all them. The Apartheid in the South African society. The civil confrontations and the crisis of food in Africa. Clever boy my brother! For Julio's end not we had had news of him. My parents would become annoying. (..)
    2007 Into the Wild