English
Pronunciation
Pronunciation guide|IPA:/d��b��k�l/
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��k�l|-��k�l
Noun
debacle
#A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other debris.
#An event or enterprise that ends disastrously.
#:Quotations
#:*1848 The Brunswickers were routed and had fled -- their Duke was killed. It was a general debacle. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
#:*2003 The demo was a debacle -- instead of shaving off three seconds, I�d added thirty. I wanted to cry. - Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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