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Word: Debacle
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
early 19th century (in sense ‘the breaking up of ice in a river’): from French débâcle, from débâcler ‘unleash’, from dé- ‘un-’ + bâcler ‘to bar’ (from Latin baculum ‘staff’)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco
Short Definition:sudden and ignominious failure
Examples:- the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle
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