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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : dey-bah-kuhl, -bak-uhl, duh- |
Phonetic Transcription : deɪˈbɑ kəl, -ˈbæk əl, də- |
Definition of debacle
Origin :- "disaster," 1848, from French débâcle "downfall, collapse, disaster" (17c.), a figurative use, literally "breaking up (of ice on a river)," extended to the violent flood that follows when the river ice melts in spring; from débâcler "to free," from Middle French desbacler "to unbar," from des- "off" + bacler "to bar," from Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum "stick" (see bacillus). Sense of "disaster" was present in French before English borrowed the word.
- noun catastrophe
- The next subject upon which I thought I might tackle him was the “Debacle.”
- Extract from : « The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 » by Various
- The debacle of Russia was ever before the eyes of these nations.
- Extract from : « With the Doughboy in France » by Edward Hungerford
- Some place in that debacle there lay his own responsibility.
- Extract from : « Dangerous Days » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- How long would it be before we reached this stage of debacle?
- Extract from : « Our Elizabeth » by Florence A. Kilpatrick
- That was one way of putting it, but both Joe and the newscaster who had covered the debacle knew the reality of the situation.
- Extract from : « Mercenary » by Dallas McCord Reynolds
- The initial bitterness which followed the debacle of 1955 had passed, we were glad to see.
- Extract from : « The Image and the Likeness » by John Scott Campbell
- Bruce Gordon looked at the debacle left behind the drunken, looting mob.
- Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey
- In the early 1840's, shortly after the debacle of the beaver trade, a strong surge of immigration from the States to Oregon began.
- Extract from : « Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society » by Robert F. Murphy
- At last they have me, these English, may have been his thought that evening as he spurred his horse out of the debacle.
- Extract from : « The German War » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Such a debacle is quite needless, provided some fundamental principles and practices are understood and followed.
- Extract from : « A Living from the Land » by William B. Duryee
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