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Noun debacle has 3 senses
- debacle, fiasco - a sudden and violent collapse
--1 is a kind of collapse
- debacle - flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer
--2 is a kind of flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion
- thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping - a sound defeat
--3 is a kind of defeat, licking
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