débâcle

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See also: debacle and débâclé

English

Pronunciation

Noun

débâcle (plural débâcles)

  1. 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)

  1. debacle (break-up of ice dam)
  2. debacle (fiasco)
Descendants
  • Czech: debakl
  • Dutch: debacle
  • English: debacle
  • German: Debakel

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms

Verb

débâcle

  1. inflection of débâcler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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