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· debacle
noun
a sudden and violent collapse
flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
a sound defeat
Similar words
fiasco
drubbing
slaughter
thrashing
trouncing
walloping
whipping
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).