debacle

nouncatastrophe

Synonyms for debacle

noun catastrophe

Antonyms for debacle

Word Origin & History

"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.

Example Sentences for debacle

The next subject upon which I thought I might tackle him was the “Debacle.”

The debacle of Russia was ever before the eyes of these nations.

Some place in that debacle there lay his own responsibility.

How long would it be before we reached this stage of debacle?

That was one way of putting it, but both Joe and the newscaster who had covered the debacle knew the reality of the situation.

The initial bitterness which followed the debacle of 1955 had passed, we were glad to see.

Bruce Gordon looked at the debacle left behind the drunken, looting mob.

In the early 1840's, shortly after the debacle of the beaver trade, a strong surge of immigration from the States to Oregon began.

At last they have me, these English, may have been his thought that evening as he spurred his horse out of the debacle.

Such a debacle is quite needless, provided some fundamental principles and practices are understood and followed.

debacle

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casualties

casualty

cataclysm

catastrophe

collapse

debacle

Synonyms for debacle

Antonyms for debacle

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