Debacle - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|dɪˈbɑːkl|
Brit.
|dɪˈbɑːkl|
noun
- 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: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping, whipping)
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
- a sound defeat (syn: drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, walloping, whipping)
Extra examples
After the debacle of his first novel, he had trouble getting a publisher for his next book.
...the financial debacle that was the stock market crash of 1929...
What a debacle. Next thing he knew, one of the patients would turn up dead.
Word forms
noun
singular: debacle
plural: debacles
singular: debacle
plural: debacles
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