débâcle

See also: debacle and débâclé

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/, /deɪˈbɑːklə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːkəl

Noun

débâcle (plural débâcles)

1. Alternative form of debacle.
   • 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Caribbean 2002, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 68:

     The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.

Anagrams

• belaced

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /de.bakl/ ~ /de.bɑkl/

Etymology 1

Deverbal from débâcler

Noun

débâcle f (plural débâcles)

1. debacle (break-up of ice dam)
2. debacle (fiasco)

Related terms

• débâcler
• embâcle

Descendants

• → Czech: debakl
• → Dutch: debacle
• → English: debacle
• → German: Debakel

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms

Verb

débâcle

1. inflection of débâcler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “débâcle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.