Associations to the word «Debacle»
Noun
- Aftermath
- Resignation
- Evacuation
- Saving
- Cia
- Precaution
- Collapse
- Retreat
- Failure
- Inquiry
- Invasion
- Wake
- Defeat
- Castro
- Churchill
- Crisis
- Instant
- Worst
- Harbor
- La
- Responsibility
- Liberal
- Leadership
- Coalition
- Threshold
- Cyprus
- Expedition
- Pony
- Rebellion
- Napoleon
- Socialist
- Attempt
- Warner
- Battle
- Repeat
- Quest
- Vietnam
- Campaign
- Army
- Pearl
- Ally
- Disaster
- Party
- Regime
- Election
- Future
- Policy
- Loss
- Victory
- Investigation
- Removal
- Thirty
Adjective
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Wiktionary
DEBACLE, noun. An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
DEBACLE, noun. (ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
DÉBÂCLE, noun. Alternative form of debacle
Dictionary definition
DEBACLE, noun. A sudden and violent collapse.
DEBACLE, noun. Flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer.
DEBACLE, noun. A sound defeat.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.