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Noun
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An event or enterprise that ends disastrously or humiliatingly
failure
fiasco
flop
disaster
catastrophe
dud
lemon
bust
fizzle
clunker
turkey
clinker
bummer
bomb
miss
shipwreck
fail
collapse
botch
mess
hash
wreck
shambles
breakdown
frost
rout
loser
snafu
crash
downfall
ruination
misfortune
disintegration
farce
reversal
defeasance
dissolution
havoc
smash
smashup
massacree
foul-up
screw-up
balls-up
car crash
crack-up
blue ruin
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“There were reports of bitter arguments between America's General Eisenhower and Churchill, and that the whole venture was a debacle.”
Noun
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A tragic event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress
tragedy
catastrophe
calamity
disaster
cataclysm
apocalypse
devastation
misfortune
blow
mishap
adversity
trouble
misadventure
tribulation
setback
affliction
accident
trial
mischance
hardship
reverse
failure
bad luck
contretemps
woe
bad news
crisis
distress
casualty
upheaval
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“The last effort of the last surviving champions of Irish independence had ended in a tragic debacle.”
Noun
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A heavy, and typically humiliating, defeat
rout
vanquishment
beating
drubbing
shellacking
trouncing
licking
overthrow
ruin
defeat
washout
thrashing
annihilation
massacre
pasting
hammering
whipping
hiding
loss
caning
trimming
demolition
trashing
waxing
embarrassment
fiasco
clobbering
plastering
slaughter
pounding
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“They struggled to reconcile a debacle at the hands of a foreign conqueror with the belief that they were the chosen people.”
Noun
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A stupid or careless mistake
blunder
error
mistake
slip
gaffe
oversight
fault
misstep
lapse
boob
clanger
slipup
goof
stumble
gaff
inaccuracy
flub
fluff
fumble
screwup
miscue
howler
clinker
brick
blooper
trip
bobble
bungle
fail
bloomer
indiscretion
boner
impropriety
botch
thinko
barry
gaucherie
muff
fiasco
boo-boo
slip-up
faux pas
foul-up
mix-up
dumb move
flub-up
stupid mistake
dumb thing to do
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Noun
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A significant or total loss of power, prosperity, or status
downfall
ruin
fall
destruction
undoing
overthrow
ruination
collapse
disgrace
decline
defeat
descent
end
failure
unseating
vanquishing
annihilation
breakdown
conquest
crash
death
debasement
declension
declination
degeneracy
degeneration
demise
deterioration
devolution
ousting
toppling
comedown
comeuppance
decadence
degradation
deposition
eclipse
elimination
flameout
labefaction
nemesis
Waterloo
bane
doom
loss of power
loss of prosperity
loss of status
road to ruin
rack and ruin
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