Synonyms for debacle
dəˈbɑ kəl, -ˈbæk əl, deɪ-de·ba·cle

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1. debaclenoun

   An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

   Synonyms:
   fiasco

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1. debacle, fiasconoun

   a sudden and violent collapse

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, walloping, drubbing, whipping, fiasco, slaughter

2. debaclenoun

   flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

   Synonyms:
   walloping, slaughter, whipping, drubbing, trouncing, thrashing, fiasco

3. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whippingnoun

   a sound defeat

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, mass murder, whipping, whipstitching, lacing, carnage, walloping, drubbing, butchery, thrashing, licking, fiasco, trouncing, massacre, lashing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

Matched Categories

1. • Collapse
   • Defeat
   • Flood

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1. List of paraphrases for "debacle":

   meltdown, breakup, fiasco, break-up, disaster, collapse, bust

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How to use debacle in a sentence?

1. Jon Ossoff:

   Yesterday's election debacle lays bare the need to ensure a free and fair election for every Georgia voter, and our campaign will not stop working to achieve that goal.

2. Lyudmila Zhuravleva:

   After this debacle, we're left with ruins instead of a TV company, they clearly made it their job to eliminate our company in general so that even later, when we get our property back, we won't be able to function.

3. August Pfluger:

   No, I’m sorry, the American president and the secretary of defense set the conditions, but it seems just the opposite of that… it’s heartbreaking after 20 years in Afghanistan to see the blood, sweat and tears that have been spent there now evaporating into this debacle.

4. Victoria Spartz:

   I believe he understands the challenges of our effort in Ukraine, but the politicians and foreign policy establishment are making strategic decisions, not military leaders, this should trouble all Americans as these are the know-nothing know-it-alls who oversaw the debacle in Afghanistan, and other foreign policy blunders, and have faced zero accountability.

5. Bill Werde:

   Most booking contracts are site specific, so with the move to Maryland I think in all probability these artists have easy-outs. And looking at the debacle that this festival has been, I would really be surprised if a lot these artists, if not all of them, didnt start exercising those outs.