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debacle
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sudden and violent collapse [syn: fiasco ] flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer a sound defeat [syn: thrashing , walloping , drubbing , slaughter , trouncing , whipping ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Debacle \De*ba"cle\, n. [F. d['e]b[^a]cle, fr. d['e]b[^a]cler to unbar, break loose; pref. d['e]- (prob. = L. dis) + b[^a]cler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.] (Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. 2 (context ecology English) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A débâcle is an event that turns out as a disaster. It is also the name of: Debacle: The First Decade , an album by the Violent Femmes La Débâcle , a novel by Émile Zola Debacle, a 2009 Nike SB skateboarding video
Usage examples of debacle.
Sometimes we are fused with Cervantes, but more often we are invisible wanderers who accompany the sublime pair in their adventures and debacles.
However, the Special Republican Guard, the Republican Guard, and a handful of regular army divisions remained both loyal and cohesive enough after the debacle of Desert Storm to suppress both of the revolts.
Soseki Koi and a small group of survivors had fought their way clear of the Mitzi Harlan debacle.
Anto Rayl says their investigators have found that those ships were two which had been for repairs at the time of the general debacle.
He remembered her laughing when he told her about the Leaky Cauldron debacle.
Arthur Andersen, the once-revered accounting firm, evaporated overnight as its role in the debacle led to a subsidiary scandal of its own.
The Mineral Exploiters had destroyed each other in a horribly embarrassing debacle.
Royal Horticultural Society would flap their mouths like mynah birds, repeating every titillating detail of the debacle to anyone who cared to listen.
All in all, it had been quite a debacle, but it had also been a maturing experience.
None mentioned the Mexican debacle, Playa Enterprises, or the Playa del Sol Company, Ltd.
And in the case of the Larners, the association would be even more hazardous - they were outright hustlers tainted by the Playa del Sol debacle.
After the debacle of the attempted storming of Silo Nine and the purges that followed, what remained of the underground lived from moment to moment, and tended to be even more paranoid than it used to.
He knew he was responsible for the debacle, but to hear it put into words by another military man, his superior officer now but more than that, a renowned fighter like Aguinaldo, brought the terrible load of his failure home.
Martian debacle, built and hurled at the nearest of the habitable worlds indicated on the Martian astrogation charts with the bravado of a Molotov cocktail hurled at a tank.
A day after the last debacle, Baptiste had another meeting planned with Benoit Moreau that he hoped would go better than the prior.