Had I but known what she intended, I might have forestalled this debacle.
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Debacle
//dɪˈbɑ.kəl//
Synonyms for "debacle" (130 found)
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13 entriesTranslations
44 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- διατροπή noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Arabic
2 entries- فَشَل ذَرِيْع noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- كارِثة noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Czech
1 entries- debakl noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Dutch
3 entries- debacle noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- fiasco noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- verplettering noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Esperanto
2 entries- fiasko noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- fuŝafero noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Finnish
3 entries- epäonnistuminen noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- fiasko noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- laukeaminen noun (break up of a natural dam)
French
3 entries- débâcle noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- débâcle noun (break up of a natural dam)
- fiasco noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
German
1 entries- Debakel noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Hungarian
4 entries- bukás noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- fiaskó noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- kudarc noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- összeomlás noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Italian
2 entries- fiasco noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- frantumazione noun (break up of a natural dam)
Japanese
1 entries- 大失敗 noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Latvian
1 entries- izgāšanās noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Māori
1 entries- hanepītanga noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- isgang noun (break up of a natural dam)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- isgang noun (break up of a natural dam)
Polish
2 entries- obsuwa noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- wtopa noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Portuguese
1 entries- fiasco noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Russian
4 entries- вскры́тие реки́ noun (break up of a natural dam)
- ледохо́д noun (break up of a natural dam)
- прова́л noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- фиа́ско noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Spanish
2 entries- debacle noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- desastre noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Swedish
1 entries- debacle noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Turkish
2 entries- fiyasko noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- hezimet noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Ukrainian
4 entries- катастрофа noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- крах noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
- скресання noun (break up of a natural dam)
- фіаско noun (event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously)
Sample sentences
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What was at first a natural disaster rapidly became a man-made debacle.
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We're fed up with the whole debacle.
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The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
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