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. Steve Schmidt:

   Every winning nominee and every winning presidential candidate walks many lonely miles through the valley of the shadow of political death -- and resiliency is the chief virtue required for victory, john McCain understood that, as did Barack Obama -- while going through the Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright debacle -- as did George W. Bush, after losing to John McCain in New Hampshire in 2000, and there are many other examples.

2. John Ashbrook:

   More concerning than the debacle last night is his career track record of not showing up for work, well documented by the AP and the Washington Post, he simply disappeared in previous roles as Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania and Mayor of Braddock where he quit attending council meetings altogether. The only thing worse than being incapable of advocating for his constituents, is being uninterested in the job.

3. Gerry Connolly:

   This debacle could have been avoided.

4. Claudia Tenney:

   Look, right now, we have families that are still stranded. so this is just completely unacceptable. And it's part of the debacle that has been this policy and Secretary Blinken needs to answer that.

5. Chris Cuomo:

   The Trump administration announced eligibility, 65-plus, so you take a state like New York, that is seven million people are eligible for the vaccine, 65-plus, healthcare workers, essential workers, etc. Seven million people. We received 250,000 doses per week, so they constructed a tremendous supply and demand debacle.