"cataclysmal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From cataclysm + -al.",
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          "ref": "1861, Richard Owen, Palaeontology Or A Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and Their Geological Relations:",
          "text": "That they have been exterminated by exceptional cataclysmal changes of the earth's surface has not been proved.",
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          "text": "Perhaps she’s so deaf that nothing short of a cataclysmal uproar will reach her auditory nerves.",
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        "As noisy or destructive as a cataclysm."
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          "word": "cataclysmic"
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  "word": "cataclysmal"
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