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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Crisis \Cri"sis\ (kr?"s?s), n.; pl {Crises} (-s?z). [L. crisis, Gr ????, fr ???? to separate. See {Certain}.] 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: crisis n 1: an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty; "they went bankrupt during the economic crisis" 2: a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something "after the crisis the patient either dies or gets better"
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