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Debacle   Listen
noun
Debacle  n.  
1.
(Geol.) 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 débris.
2.
A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.
3.
A complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a fiasco.





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"Debacle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the whole British army by this time. Ney destroyed each regiment as it came up. The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English. The Brunswickers were routed and had fled—their Duke was killed. It was a general debacle. He sought to drown his sorrow for the defeat in ...
— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray
... years, and for a while two or three were formed every year at such places as Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone, and Swindon, they were bodies of small importance, and contributed scarcely anything to the sum of Fabian activity. The only local Fabian Society which survived the debacle was Liverpool, which has carried on work similar to that of the London Society down to the present time. Its relations with the I.L.P. have always been harmonious, and, like the I.L.P., it has always maintained an attitude of hostility towards the old political parties. Its ...
— The History of the Fabian Society • Edward R. Pease
... impending death, Mosby was back in action again near the end of February, 1865. His return was celebrated with another series of raids on both sides of the mountains. It was, of course, obvious to everybody that the sands of the Confederacy were running out, but the true extent of the debacle was somewhat obscured to Mosby's followers by their own immediate successes. Peace rumors began drifting about, the favorite item of wish-thinking being that the Union government was going to recognize the Confederacy and negotiate a peace in return for Confederate help ...
— Rebel Raider • H. Beam Piper


Words linked to "Debacle" :   licking, defeat, slaughter, trouncing, alluvion, inundation, collapse, deluge, thrashing, whipping, fiasco, flood, drubbing


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