Debacle

n.	1.	(Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other débris.
	2.	A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.
	3.	a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a fiasco.

Noun	1.	debacle - a sudden and violent collapse Synonyms: fiasco
	2.	debacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
	3.	debacle - a sound defeat Synonyms: thrashing, trouncing, walloping, drubbing, slaughter, whipping

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, 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

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