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Definitions: Debacle |
DebacleNoun1. A sudden and violent collapse. 2. Flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer. 3. A sound defeat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "debacle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
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Mining | A. A breakup on a river, esp. on the great rivers of the former U.S.S.R. and of North America b. The rush of water, broken ice, and debris in a stream immediately following a breakup. Syn:ice run c. Any sudden, violent, destructive flood, deluge, or rush of water that breaks down opposing barriers and sweeps before it debris of allkinds.---Etymol: French debacle. (references) |
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Synonyms: DebacleSynonyms: drubbing (n), fiasco (n), slaughter (n), thrashing (n), trouncing (n), walloping (n), whipping (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Avalanche, debacle, landslip, landslide. |
Destruction | Eboulement, smash, havoc, delabrement, debacle; break down, break up, fall apart; prostration; desolation, bouleversement, wreck, wrack, shipwreck, cataclysm; washout. |
River | Water spout, water fall; cascade, force, foss; lin, linn; ghyll, Niagara; cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm; debacle, inundation, deluge; chute, washout. |
Violence | Outbreak, outburst; debacle; burst, bounce, dissilience, discharge, volley, explosion, blow up, blast, detonation, rush, eruption, displosion, torrent. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Debacle |
| Non-English Usage: "Debacle" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (debacle), Swedish (debacle). |
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| "Debacle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Debacle" is used about 131 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 131 | 27,855 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the debacle | 12 |
debacle enron | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "debacle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shpartallim (rout, thrashing), shkrirje akulli, përmbysje e qeverisë, arratisje (break, decampment, elopement, escape, escapement, evasion, flight, leg-bail, scamper, scape). (various references) | |
Arabic | هزيمة (beating, defeat, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, thrashing, trimming, wall), تكسر الجليد. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разгром (fall, rout), порой (brash, downpour, flash flood, flood, freshet, pour, spate, torrent, volley). (various references) | |
Farsi | سقوطناگهانی حکومت وغیره , سرنگونی , افتضاح (Eclat, Ignominy, Infamy, Scandal). (various references) | |
French | débâcle. (various references) | |
German | Katastrophe (calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy). (various references) | |
Greek | κατάρρευση (break down, collapse, crash, deliberate thrashing, failure, hull collapse, hull slamming, intentional thrashing, settlement, sinking, slamming, subsidence). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bukás (breakdown, catastrophe, come down, doom, downfall, failure, fall, fiasco, mucker, overthrow, spill, tumble), jégzajlás, iszapomlás, összeomlás (breakdown, bust up, cataclysm, collapse, débâcle, mouldering, ruin, smash, wreckage). (various references) | |
Indonesian | keruntuhan (downfall). (various references) | |
Italian | sfacelo (break up, disrepair). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ebacleday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desastre (accident, blow, casualty, disaster, evil, misfortune, smash), degel, queda (chute, cloud-burst, come down, decay, descent, downfall, fall, fallback, falling, falling over, letdown, mucker, overthrow, prolapse, purler, spill, topple, tumble, tumbling, upset), fusão (amalgamation, casting, consolidation, founding, fusion, glass melting, heat, interflow, interfusion, melt, meltdown, melting, melting down, merger, merging, processing, rendering), colapso (break down, breakdown, collapse, cracker, drop, fit, sinking). (various references) | |
Romanian | dezgheţare a unui râu, dezgheţ (thaw), revãrsare de ape, prãbuşire (break, break down, break up, burst up, collapse, crack up, crash, decay, downfall, drop, fall, labefaction), potop (cataclysm, cataract, cloud, deluge, destruction, flood, flux, freshet, ravage, sea, stack, stream), cãdere (authority, becomingness, break down, collapse, cropper, destruction, downfall, drop, failure, fall, labefaction, lapse, plump, rot, spill, Turkey). (various references) | |
Russian | разгром (defeat, drubbing, rout, shambles, smash, walloping), вскрытие реки (clearing), ниспровержение (subversion). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | debakl, slom (break, breakdown, collapse, fracture, labefaction, ruin, wreck), poraz (defeat, drubbing, reverse, rout, trimming). (various references) | |
Spanish | debacle. (various references) | |
Swedish | vild flykt (rout). (various references) | |
Turkish | yıkım (bad, bane, blight, cropper, damnation, death, demolition, disaster, havoc, ravage, ruin, undoing, wrecking), kaçışma, fiyasko (bomb, bust, dud, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flivver, frost, Turkey, washout), felâket (affliction, bane, blight, blow, calamity, calvary, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, distress, fatality, fate, harm, hell, hell of, helluva, misfortune, mishap, plague, scathe, scourge, tragedy, undoing), buzulun erimesiyle ani su baskını, bozgun (beating, cropper, defeat, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, stampede, upset). (various references) | |
Ukranian | скресання ріки, розгром (checkmate, defeat, frustration, smash, walloping), катастрофа (accident, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, crash, smash, wreck), прорив греблі. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | baculum. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | desbacler. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "debacle": debacles. (additional references) | |
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"Debacle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dabacle, debac, debace, debachle, debackle, debacvle, Debakle, Debassie, debatle, debaucle, Debayle, Debele, debocle, debole, Dembele, Dibala, Dibekulu, Duboule, Ndebele. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "debacle" (pronounced dubÄ"kul) |
| 4 | -Ä" k u l | gonococcal. |
| 3 | -k u l | acoustical, aeronautical, agrochemical, allegorical, alphabetical, analytical, anarchical, anatomical, ankle, anthropological, antithetical, apolitical, archaeological, archeological, article, astrological, astronautical, astronomical, asymmetrical, atypical, autobiographical, barnacle, biblical, bicycle, bifocal, biochemical, biographical, biological, biomedical, biotechnological, botanical, brickle, buckle, cackle, categorical, cervical, chemical, Chronicle, chronological, chuckle, circle, classical, clavicle, clerical, clinical, comical, commonsensical, conical, coracle, cortical, crackle, critical, cubicle, cuticle, cycle, cyclical, cylindrical, cynical, dermatological, diabolical, diacritical, dialectical, domical, ducal, ecclesiastical, ecological, economical, ecumenical, egotistical, electrical, electrochemical, electromechanical, elliptical, empirical, encircle, encyclical, epidemiological, epochal, equivocal, eschatological, ethical, ethnical, etymological, evangelical, fanatical, farcical, fecal, fickle, fiscal, focal, follicle, freckle, galenical, geographical, geological, geometrical, geophysical, geopolitical, grackle, grammatical, granduncle, graphical, gynecological, hackle, heckle, helical, heretical, heterocercal, hierarchical, historical, honeysuckle, Huckle, hypercritical, hypocritical, hypothetical, hysterical, icicle, identical, ideological, illogical, immunological, impractical, inimical, ironical, jackal, knuckle, lackadaisical, lexical, liturgical, local, logical, logistical, lyrical, magical, maniacal, mathematical, matriarchal, mechanical, medical, meikle, metallurgical, metaphorical, metaphysical, meteorological, methodical, methodological, metrical, Mickle, miracle, monocle, morphological, motorcycle, muckle, musical, mystical, mythical, mythological, nautical, neoclassical, neurological, nickel, Nickle, Nicol, nonelectrical, nonpolitical, nonsensical, nonsurgical, nontechnical, numerical, obstacle, ontological, optical, Oracle, oratorical, ornithological, paradoxical, particle, pathological, patriarchal, pedagogical, periodical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pharmacological, philosophical, phonological, photochemical, physical, physiological, pickle, pinnacle, polemical, political, pontifical, popsicle, practical, preclinical, problematical, prototypical, psychical, psychological, pumpernickel, puritanical, quizzical, rabbinical, radical, radiological, ramshackle, rankle, rascal, receptacle, reciprocal, recycle, rhetorical, ruckle, runkle, sabbatical, satirical, semiclassical, semicylindrical, semitropical, serological, shackle, shekel, sickle, skeptical, sociological, Sokol, sparkle, speckle, spectacle, spherical, sprinkle, statistical, stereotypical, stickle, strategical, suckle, surgical, symmetrical, tabernacle, tackle, tactical, technical, technological, teleological, tentacle, testicle, theatrical, theological, theoretical, tickle, tinkle, topical, toxicological, trickle, tricycle, tropical, twinkle, typical, typographical, tyrannical, umbilical, uncle, uncritical, uneconomical, unequivocal, unethical, unicycle, unshackle, untypical, vehicle, vertical, viatical, virological, vocal, whimsical, Winkle, wrinkle, zoological. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: belaced. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l" | |
-1 letter: beadle, cabled. | |
-2 letters: abele, baled, bedel, blade, bleed, cable, celeb, clade, decal, laced. | |
-3 letters: abed, able, aced, alec, alee, bade, bald, bale, bead, blae, bled, cade, cede, clad, dace, dale, deal, dele, lace, lade, lead. | |
-4 letters: ace, alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bee, bel, cab, cad, cee, cel, dab, dal, deb, dee, del, eel, eld, lab, lac, lad, lea, led, lee. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, el, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-e-l" | |
+1 letter: becalmed, bleached, debacles, educable. | |
+2 letters: bechalked, beclasped, becloaked, becrawled, blackened, clabbered, clambered, danceable, decidable, educables, medicable. | |
+3 letters: ascendable, ascendible, beclamored, bellyached, berascaled, celebrated, creditable, deceivable, declarable, declinable, delectable, delectably, descramble, despicable, detachable, detectable, eradicable, excludable, ineducable, predicable, rebalanced, recordable, unbleached, uneducable. | |
+4 letters: backpedaled, barefacedly, binucleated, candleberry, commendable, condemnable, condensable, curveballed, deflectable, delectables, depreciable, descrambled, descrambler, descrambles, describable, discernable, elucubrated, immedicable, medicinable, predicables, predictable, rhabdocoele, tabernacled, undanceable, undecidable. | |
+5 letters: accreditable, backpedalled, bespectacled, breechloader, considerable, decasyllable, decipherable, decomposable, descramblers, discoverable, displaceable, documentable, indeclinable, ineradicable, overbalanced, overbleached, recalibrated, relubricated, rhabdocoeles, tuberculated, uncelebrated, undetectable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 62 61 63 6C 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . -... .- -.-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100010 01100001 01100011 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e b a c l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0062 0061 0063 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38716867697871 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Translations: Ancient | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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