Thesaurus: crisis

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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
4. n. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something
5. 1. 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. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. Dryden. The very times of crisis for the fate of the country. Brougham. 2. (Med.) 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. Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.
6. That change in a disease which indicates whether the result isto be recovery or death; sometimes, also, a striking change ofsymptoms attended by an outward manifestation, as by an eruption orsweat.Till some safe crisis authorize their skill. Dryden.
7. n:100 n. an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty n. a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something