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