Debacle

Noun

 * 1) An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
 * 2)  A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

Adjectives for Debacle
catastrophe; violent; worldwide; nationwide; countrywide; global; domestic; economic; political;

Synonyms for Debacle

 * fiasco

Thesaurus
beating, breakdown, breakup, cascade, cataclysm, catastrophe, collapse, convulsion, crash, deathblow, declension, declination, defeat, destruction, disaster, downfall, failure, fall, falling, revolt, revulsion, rout, ruin, shellacking, shipwreck, smash, smashup, spasm, thrashing, total loss, trouncing, wreck, débâcle, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, dropping, drubbing, failure, fall, falling, gravitation, hiding, inclination, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, plummeting, pounce, quietus, radical change, rapids, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, rout, ruin, shellacking, shipwreck, smash, smashup, spasm, stoop, striking alteration, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subversion, sweeping change, swoop, tabula rasa, technological revolution, thrashing, total change, total loss, transilience, trimming, trouncing, undoing, upset, vanquishment, violent change, washout, waterfall, whipping, wrack, wreck, Waterloo, beating, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, catastrophe, cave, cave-in, chute, clean slate, clean sweep, collapse, comedown, computer revolution, conquering, conquest, convulsion, counterrevolution, crack-up, crash, deathblow, declension, declination, defeasance, defeat, defluxion, descending, descension, descent, destruction, disaster, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve,

Alternative forms

 * débâcle
 * debâcle
 * débacle

Etymology
From débâcle: from débâcler: from prefix dé-: + bâcler: from  from  bâcler, bacler "to hold in place, prop a door or window open" from  bakkelen "to freeze artificially, lock in place" from bakken "to stick, stick hard, glue together". Also attested in desbacler "to clear a harbour by getting ships unloaded to make room for incoming ships with lading" and in  baclar "to close". Modern sense of "bar, block" stems from influence from baculum:. The word débâcle is first attested in the early 19th century.

Translations

 * Dutch: verplettering
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,


 * German:
 * Russian: фиаско
 * Swedish:


 * Finnish: laukeaminen
 * French:


 * Russian: ледоход, вскрытие река