Inventing Language

I heard a new word the other day on a news show.  “Catastrophizing”.   I guess it truly is a word, because spell check on my computer didn’t put that little squiggly red line under it.  Does it mean “make into a catastrophe”?  How does one do that?  Is it like a skier that starts an avalanche?  He or she “catastrophized” an existing natural phenomenon?  All right.  I bow to greater minds than mine.

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