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Debacle   /dəbˈɑkəl/   Listen
Debacle

noun
1.
A sudden and violent collapse.  Synonym: fiasco.
2.
Flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer.
3.
A sound defeat.  Synonyms: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping.






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"Debacle" Quotes from Famous Books



... expression of true feeling? Was she actually persuaded it was waste of time to contend against him? Or was she shrewdly playing upon his not unfriendly disposition toward her in the hope that it would spare her in the hour of the grand debacle? ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance



Words linked to "Debacle" :   flood, licking, alluvion, defeat, walloping, trouncing, deluge, collapse, inundation



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