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English
Pronunciation
Noun
débâcle (plural débâcles)
- Alternative form of debacle.
2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.bakl/, /de.bɑkl/
Etymology 1
Deverbal from débâcler
Noun
débâcle f (plural débâcles)
- debacle
Descendants
Etymology 2
Non-lemma forms
Verb
débâcle
- inflection of débâcler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
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