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debacle
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also débâcle
1
a sudden violent event that brings about great loss or destruction<the financial debacle that was the stock market crash of 1929>— see disaster
2
something that has failed<the movie, which some had predicted would be a blockbuster, turned out to be the summerʼs biggest debacle at the multiplexes>— see failure 3
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