debacle English

Meaning debacle meaning

What does debacle mean?

debacle

— noun a sudden and violent collapse

— noun flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

— noun (= thrashing) a sound defeat

Synonyms debacle synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as debacle?

debacle English » English

fiasco

whipping

walloping

trouncing

thrashing

stampede

slaughter

havoc

failure

drubbing

disaster

destruction

collapse

catastrophe

calamity

breakdown

unfreezing

turkey

train wreck

thaw

slump

ruination

ruin

rout

meltdown

massive failure

flop

flame-out

downfall

devastation

demolition

defrost

defreeze

damage

crash

crack

break

Examples debacle examples

How do I use debacle in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

Oh, it was a debacle!

After tonight's debacle, an efficient liaison officer wouldn't come amiss.

I recommend we come up with a solid front to explain this debacle to the Imperious Leader.

Despite the Pearl Harbor debacle, Germany first.

Who do you think will see this debacle?

But we need a winning year, especially after last year's debacle with the swim team.

This is an outrage, a sham, a violation. a debacle, a mockery.

I tell you the whole, long debacle and this you have a problem with?

A fiasco. - A debacle.

And the Compu-Rom debacle.

So, as I was saying, the Andromeda debacle put me into some serious debt to some rather unsavory characters.

Warren Dreyfous founded a communication strategy firm that made the Exxon oil spill an incident rather than a debacle.

I haven't discussed this awful subject since the debacle at the campus.

Total debacle.

Emotional fiasco and financial debacle.

Oh, bit of a debacle.

But the thing I learned from the whole Charlie debacle. is that you gotta punch your weight.

A debacle even, wouldn't you say?

Forgive me for not attending, but I have to try to salvage this debacle.

Don't blame me for your little debacle.

What if he's someone freelance, brought in to clean up their Little Creek debacle?

We got to retrieve something from this debacle.

It was the beginning of the last war, in 1940. At the time of the debacle.

From now on, any mention of the entire debacle will cease.

If I may, Daphne, it's basically to give Mel a little wiggle room so she can get out this debacle with her dignity intact.

First, the debacle with Regan, now Syd's Novelty Shop is completely out of naughty coasters.

I'm sorry about.. Sorry about the whole drinking, singing debacle.

I'll tell you the truth, it's becoming a debacle.

Excuse me. A perfectly good kidney has gone to waste as a result of this debacle.

Monsieur Nuffaut, I must apologize for this strange debacle.

A public debacle on record is just what they need. to convince the full partnership in January to broom him. - What?

I see once again you managed to walk away from a major debacle unscathed.

News and current affairs

Instead, the crisis stemmed from the US sub-prime debacle, which quickly dragged the global economy into its deepest recession since the 1930's.

That issue and the unresolved Palestine-Israel debacle are holding off immediate action.

Confronted with the debacle in the rest of (Arab) Iraq, the question has to be asked why the US-led coalition should not hold a referendum in the Kurdish region, asking the population how they would like to be ruled.

The Wolfowitz debacle should be a wake-up call to the World Bank: it must no longer be controlled by ideology.

He is perhaps the unsung hero of the entire debacle.

What Levitt grasped - and what the Enron debacle shows so clearly - is that incentives matter, but that unfettered markets by themselves may not provide the right incentives.

Then came a backlash, fuelled in large part by the Enron debacle and other corporate scandals.

But even he may stay in office to try again, having blamed others - in this case private companies - for the debacle.

Last year's Northern Rock debacle in the United Kingdom will long remain an example of how not to manage such risk.

If the primary surpluses are insufficient, temporary measures will only postpone the inevitable debt debacle.

One of the lessons of the Wolfowitz debacle is that it does actually matter how stakeholders and employees feel about the Bank's leadership.

Germany tends to call the shots, of course, but the discordant national politics of many member states has contributed to one debacle after the next.

One key lesson ignored in the Greece debacle is that when a bailout becomes necessary, it should be done once and definitively.

Kennedy tried; his successor, Lyndon Johnson, did not, and the debacle of Vietnam ensued.

Governments are doing too little to address the private credit debacle.

Back then, that debacle seemed to presage a broader US withdrawal from Asia, with a war-weary American public seeking the supposed comforts of isolationism.

If anything, America's debacle in Iraq has only emboldened the challengers of the status quo in the region.

Any real change in the near term must come from China, which increasingly has the most to lose from a dollar debacle.

The recent high-speed rail debacle is a case in point.

And it is Europe and America that are marching, alone and together, to the denouement of a grand debacle.

The debacle of the United States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 should have taught us once and for all the peril of talking only through the barrel of a gun to those whose behavior disgusts us.

While evidence about the Enron debacle is not fully in, it is fair to say that Enron is both a great moral scandal and a blot on capitalism.

To be sure, in the Greek debacle, both sides have made countless mistakes, misjudgments, and misdeeds over the last decade, and even before.