debacle

n.

1. A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout.
2. A total, often ludicrous failure.
3. The breaking up of ice in a river.
4. A violent flood.

[French débâcle, from débâcler, to unbar, from Old French desbacler : des-, de- + bacler, to bar (from Vulgar Latin *bacculāre, from Latin baculum, rod).]

noun

An abrupt disastrous failure: breakdown, collapse, crash, smash, smashup, wreck. See money.

n

Definition: catastrophe
Antonyms: boon, miracle, wonder

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a sudden and violent collapse
  Synonym: fiasco

Meaning #2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer

Meaning #3: a sound defeat
  Synonyms: thrashing, walloping, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - komplet fiasko, katastrofe, isopbrud, flodbølge

Nederlands (Dutch)
fiasco, ijsgang, plotselinge instorting, wilde vlucht (van leger)

Français (French)
n. - (Mil) débâcle, fiasco

Deutsch (German)
n. - Debakel

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (μτφ.) αιφνίδια διάλυση ή κατάρρευση, καταστροφή, πανωλεθρία, βαρύ πλήγμα, συμφορά

Italiano (Italian)
disastro

Português (Portuguese)
n. - desastre (m)

Русский (Russian)
поражение

Español (Spanish)
n. - debacle, derrota, desastre, deshielo, fracaso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vild flykt, islossning

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
崩溃, 溃裂

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 崩潰, 潰裂

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 폭락, 산사태, (군대의) 도주

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 総崩れ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تكسر الجليد بقوة في النهر, اندفاع المياه بعنف, كارثه مفاجئه وهائله‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התמוטטות, כישלון, אסון, מנוסה, בהלה‬

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