Thesaurus results for EMERGENCY

a time or state of affairs requiring prompt or decisive action
- an alert, quick-thinking girl who is good to have around in an emergency
- boiling point,
- breaking point,
- clutch,
- conjuncture,
- crisis,
- crossroad(s),
- crunch,
- crunch time,
- Dunkirk,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- flash point,
- head,
- juncture,
- tinderbox,
- zero hour
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