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Synonyms for debacle

Most common

drubbing slaughter thrashing whipping

All synonyms

Noun

Other

fiasco, clown show, cluster fuck, goat rope, omnishambles informal UK, shit show vulgar slang, goatfuck slang

Definitions

  1. n. 1

    An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.

Related words

Other spellings
debâcle débacle débâcle

Forms

Plural
debacles → drubbings, slaughters, thrashings, whippings…

Example sentences

  • slaughter The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
  • drubbing After its drubbing at the polls, the party has to reinvent itself.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
debaclerising
slaughterfalling
drubbingrising
wallopingrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

6 letters
fiasco3
8 letters
whipping2, drubbing2, goatfuck
9 letters
slaughter2, thrashing2, walloping3
12 letters
omnishambles

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (fiasco3 = 3 syllables).

In other languages

Français
débâcle
Italiano
débâcle
Deutsch
Debakel
Català
desglaç