debacle
1. a sudden and violent collapse (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
fiasco
• Hypernyms:
collapse
2. flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
• Hypernyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
3. a sound defeat
• Syn:
thrashing, walloping, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
• Derivationally related forms:
whip (for: whipping), trounce (for: trouncing), drub (for: drubbing), wallop (for: walloping), thrash (for: thrashing)
• Hypernyms:
defeat, licking
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