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. David Karol:

   I could see Trump being a failed nominee, and the whole thing being a debacle for them with lasting consequences, they would probably lose the Senate, then they would lose the Supreme Court.

2. Michael Pugliese:

   I think you would be hard pressed to say [the debt ceiling debacle] was a positive thing, i think of it more as one other hurdle among a lot of other hurdles for the economy as it emerged from 9% unemployment at the time.

3. Will Cain:

   If this were President Trump, would there be a push for impeachment? We know the answer is yes. If this phone call didn't happen, if it was simply the Afghan debacle under President Trump? Would there be impeachment? Absolutely. If two top FDA executives resigned under President Trump, would there be a controversy? Yes, clearly we're not playing by the same rules a year ago.

4. Jason Ye:

   There is no doubt that the Luckin debacle has put a cloud over the Chinese IPOs in the pipeline, but the interest for Chinese companies to list here in the U.S. remains strong.

5. 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.