Akademik

debacle

noun

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

Useful english dictionary. 2012.