Use debacle to refer to a fiasco, disaster, or great failure. If several dogs run onto the field during the big baseball game, tripping players and chewing up the bases, you can call the whole event a debacle.
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d'82bris.
Noun
a sudden and violent collapse
Noun
a sound defeat
Noun
flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
n.
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of
waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and
disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
Debacle
A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d'82bris.
Usage Examples
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
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Other Usage ExamplesA major power can afford a military debacle only when it looks like a political victory.
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