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n. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout.

n. A total, often ludicrous failure.

n. The breaking up of ice in a river.

n. A violent flood.

n. An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

n. A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

n. 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.

n. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

n. a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a fiasco.

n. Specifically, the breaking up of ice in a river in consequence of a rise of the water.

n. A confused rout; an uncontrollable rush; a stampede.

n. flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

n. a sudden and violent collapse

n. a sound defeat

"To say that this debacle was a debacle is a vast understatement."

inundation    flood    alluvion    deluge    collapse    defeat    licking   

outburst    rush    catastrophe    upheaval    fiasco   

cockle    gonococcal    mochel    rockel   

meltdown    fiasco    setback    implosion    upheaval    collapse