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UK
/deɪbˈɑːkəl/
]
[ US /dəˈbɑkəɫ/ ]
[ US /dəˈbɑkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden and violent collapse
- a sound defeat
- flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
How To Use debacle In A Sentence
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- The debacle threatens to stymie the country's dynamic agricultural sector.
- When Glenn McGrath ricked his ankle while stepping on a stray cherry in Australia's pre-match warm-up, the façade of fear that had been erected during the Lord's debacle was torn down in an instant.
- For one thing, it will force the government to produce a compelling, coherent, consistent, and persuasive account of their programs, their debacles, and their triumphs.
- These two debacles take us right to the core of how service professionals handle and account for risk when they take on highly - lucrative contracts from clients.
- He cannot risk a role in yet another debacle. Times, Sunday Times
- Either he's trying to force the debates commission to "postpone" the VP debate -- in which case it will never be rescheduled, sparing Palin another debacle -- or he's trying to throw Obama off his game with this distraction about whether or not he's going to show up. Election Central Morning Roundup
- The productive exercise at this juncture is to figure out how to prevent, as best we can, the grislier parts of this debacle from happening again. The Politics Of Vengeance
- The orb might be the only thing rescued from this debacle. Odyssey
- The party has been grappling with fractionalism and infightings with senior leaders blaming each other for the electoral debacles in both the assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Daily News & Analysis