Synonyms for epicentre
epi·cen·tre

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1. epicentrenoun

   Antonyms:
   hypocentre

2. epicentrenoun

   Antonyms:
   hypocentre

3. epicentrenoun

   Antonyms:
   hypocentre

4. epicentrenoun

   Antonyms:
   hypocentre

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:4.0 / 2 votes

1. epicenter, epicentrenoun

   the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

   Synonyms:
   epicenter

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1. List of paraphrases for "epicentre":

   epicenter, heart

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1. Mike Ryan:

   South America has become a new epicentre of the disease.

2. Mike Ingram:

   We've seen broad-based losses. There's no place to hide today. The shock announcement of Anglo's is at the epicentre, but this is a market which has been looking sick for some time, so much was hinging on the ECB coming up with the goods last week, but market expectations were such that it was doomed to disappoint, and we've been picking up the pieces ever since.

3. Daniel Ives:

   We view this (deception technologies) as a $3 billion market over the next three years, with Israel and Silicon Valley being the epicentre of this innovation wave.

4. Hans Kluge:

   Europe is the epicentre of the first pandemic of coronavirus and every country, with no exceptions, needs to take their boldest actions to stop or slow the virus spread, these are unprecedented times.

5. Patsy Nakell:

   People sometimes are having to resort to these extreme choices between eating and taking life-saving medication, this is the global epicentre of the HIV epidemic and when you have a situation like this where people are struggling to have access to food and to clean water then you know (they) will resort to what we call negative coping mechanisms.