Synonyms for debacle
dəˈbɑ kəl, -ˈbæk əl, deɪ-de·ba·cle

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1. debaclenoun

   An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

   Synonyms:
   fiasco

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1. debacle, fiasconoun

   a sudden and violent collapse

   Synonyms:
   thrashing, trouncing, walloping, drubbing, whipping, fiasco, slaughter

2. debaclenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   walloping, slaughter, whipping, drubbing, trouncing, thrashing, fiasco

3. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whippingnoun

   a sound defeat

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, mass murder, whipping, whipstitching, lacing, carnage, walloping, drubbing, butchery, thrashing, licking, fiasco, trouncing, massacre, lashing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

Matched Categories

1. • Collapse
   • Defeat
   • Flood

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1. List of paraphrases for "debacle":

   meltdown, breakup, fiasco, break-up, disaster, collapse, bust

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1. Ann Patton:

   If Donald Trump was in office, we wouldn't be going through everything we're going through now. The economy would be booming. We wouldn't have had that debacle in Afghanistan. Donald Trump wouldn't have cut all the gas off, if Donald Trump was in office, I don't think we'd be going through half the things we're going through now.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   We need to be fearless in using Amir Levy/Getty Images, and when you are weak, when you allow the debacle in Afghanistan to result in the death of 13 Americans, this is precisely what bad guys will see.

3. Lindsey Graham:

   If there’s a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information after the (Hillary) Clinton debacle.

4. Leoncio Evasco Jr:

   It also further unmasks the true character of the Aquino regime – one that in the face of debacle will abandon ship and run like a headless chicken.

5. Maria Guerreiro:

   It's because of the situation here; it's a total debacle.