Debacle

Had I but known what she intended, I might have forestalled this debacle.

What was at first a natural disaster rapidly became a man-made debacle.

We're fed up with the whole debacle.

The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.

The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia […] and lays the ground for a military debacle.

The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the Prudhoe Bay oil spill] thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.

[…] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, […]

For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually […]

When this débâcle commences […], the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed […]