| 单词 | debacle |
| 释义 | debacle (once / 5420 pages) n Use debacle to refer to a fiasco, disaster, or great failure. If several dogs run onto the field during the big baseball game, tripping players and chewing up the bases, you can call the whole event a debacle. Debacle is sometimes used to describe a military defeat. If your army retreats, that's one thing. If your army is outmaneuvered and ends up huddled in a valley, surrounded on all sides by the enemy, forced to sing 70s sitcom theme songs by their savage captors––that's a debacle. Debacle comes from French débâcler "to clear," from Middle French desbacler, from the prefix des- "completely, utterly" plus bacler "to block." WORD FAMILYdebacle: debacles USAGE EXAMPLESAn important practical problem with pinning the impending debacle on Mr Trump and Republicans is that the debacle might evolve slowly. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) After the Liverpool debacle against Burnley earlier in the season I accused Milner of being a square peg in a round hole. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) Mitchell Barak, a political consultant, said the political left considered the resolution “an epic foreign policy and diplomatic debacle” by Netanyahu. Seattle Times(Dec 26, 2016) 1n a sudden and violent collapse Syn|Hyper fiasco collapse a natural event caused by something suddenly falling down or caving in 2n flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer Hyper alluvion, deluge, flood, inundation the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land 3n a sound defeat Syn|Hyper drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping defeat, licking an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest |
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