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debacle 音標拼音: [dəb'ɑkəl] n. 崩潰,潰裂 崩潰,潰裂 debacle n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [ synonym: { debacle}, { fiasco}] 2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3: a sound defeat [ synonym: { thrashing}, { walloping}, { debacle}, { drubbing}, { slaughter}, { trouncing}, { whipping}] Debacle \ De* ba" cle\, n. [ F. d[' e] b[^ a] cle, fr. d[' e] b[^ a] cler to unbar, break loose; pref. d[' e]- ( prob. = L. dis) b[^ a] cler to bolt, fr. L. baculum a stick.] 1. ( Geol.) A breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other d[' e] bris. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst. [ Webster 1913 Suppl.] 3. a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a great disaster; a { fiasco}. [ PJC] 106 Moby Thesaurus words for " debacle": Waterloo, beating, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown, breaking up, breakup, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, catastrophe, cave, cave- in, chute, clean slate, clean sweep, collapse, comedown, computer revolution, conquering, conquest, convulsion, counterrevolution, crack- up, crash, deathblow, declension, declination, defeasance, defeat, defluxion, descending, descension, descent, destruction, disaster, down, downbend, downcome, downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush, downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, dropping, drubbing, failure, fall, falling, gravitation, hiding, inclination, lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, plummeting, pounce, quietus, radical change, rapids, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, revulsion, rout, ruin, shellacking, shipwreck, smash, smashup, spasm, stoop, striking alteration, subdual, subduing, subjugation, subversion, sweeping change, swoop, tabula rasa, technological revolution, thrashing, total change, total loss, transilience, trimming, trouncing, undoing, upset, vanquishment, violent change, washout, waterfall, whipping, wrack, wreck
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