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Synonyms for debacle

Grammar : Noun
Spell : dey-bah-kuhl, -bak-uhl, duh-
Phonetic Transcription : deɪˈbɑ kəl, -ˈbæk əl, də-

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Définition 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
Example sentences :
  • 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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