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Title: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Quantus 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?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: comprex on March 12, 2008, 08:43:00 PM: lahar
avalanche
mudslide
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: comprex on March 12, 2008, 08:43:59 PM: Not so sure about maelstrom for air, though. Maybe I read too much Poe.
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: 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.
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: comprex on March 12, 2008, 10:14:58 PM: Isn't it weird that he can't use 'cataclysm' for flood?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Yeratel 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".
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: MonaLS 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?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Quantus 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. :-\
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: The Corvidian on March 14, 2008, 06:03:53 PM: Upheaval?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Noey on March 14, 2008, 06:04:54 PM: What about eruption, like a volcano?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Yeratel 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."
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Hell's Belle 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...
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: AverageGuy on March 15, 2008, 05:29:06 PM: Rush, spate, torrent, barrage, outpour, fall, sweep, crash?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Quantus on March 16, 2008, 02:13:43 PM: something more...Grand *holds up fist in display of Might* :P
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: comprex on March 16, 2008, 07:05:09 PM: Tumult
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Post by: The Corvidian on March 16, 2008, 07:51:42 PM: Geyser?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Shecky on March 18, 2008, 02:22:04 AM: Quote from: Yeratel on March 14, 2008, 09:13:30 PM
"eructation" seems to work. My Unabridged has as a reference, "Mount Aetna hath, in times past, eructated such huge goblets of fire. . . - Howell."

"Eructation" also applies to belching. ;D

Devastation?

For air, "tempest"?
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Yeratel on March 19, 2008, 05:08:33 AM: Quote from: Shecky on March 18, 2008, 02:22:04 AM
"Eructation" also applies to belching. ;D
Yeah, I know, it's one of my favorite words, along with "borborygm". I like to casually drop them into the conversation whenever I get the chance. ;D
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: AverageGuy on March 19, 2008, 08:04:19 PM: Quote from: Quantus347 on March 16, 2008, 02:13:43 PM
something more...Grand *holds up fist in display of Might* :P
Concussion, convulsion, upheaval, cataclysm, oscillation, palpitation, tremor, shuddering, staggering, breaking...

Earth is hard.
Title: Re: Need Thesaurus help
Post by: Soulless Mystic5523 on March 19, 2008, 08:22:19 PM: Quote from: AverageGuy on March 19, 2008, 08:04:19 PM
Earth is hard.

It has to be to keep us from falling through it. ;oP