debâcle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

   “The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.”

2. isim A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

   “[…] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, […]”

3. isim Alternative form of debacle.

   “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.”

4. isim Alternative form of debacle.
5. isim Alternative form of debacle.