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Definition of debacle : 1. 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 debris.
2. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.

Synonyms:

mass murder, slaughter, crash, catastrophe, smash, licking, flogging, whipstitching, rout, beating, money, tanning, drubbing, massacre, carnage, walloping, lacing, disaster, whipstitch, lashing, whacking, smashup, flagellation, butchery, whipping

fiasco, noncompletion, bust, waterloo, miscarriage, downfall, collapse, trouncing, flop, thrashing

collision, ruin, apocalypse, wreckage, landslide, breakdown, break-up, wreck, failure, shipwreck

Usage examples:

• Amongst the gneiss and granite boulders brought down by this debacle, I collected some actinolites; but all minerals are extremely rare in Sikkim and I never heard of a gem or crystal of any size or beauty, or of an ore of any consequence, being found in this country. - "Himalayan Journals V2.", J. D. Hooker.
• Against the latter hypothesis all the arguments which Charpentier originally brought forward in opposition to the first popular doctrine of a grand debacle or sudden flood rushing down from the Alps to the Jura might be revived. - "The Antiquity of Man", Charles Lyell.
• The revolt on the Rhine foreshadowed the debacle of the fifth century. - "Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II", Caius Cornelius Tacitus.