DEBACLES | English Meaning, Definition, and Pronunciation

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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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