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debacle

/dey-bah-kuhl, -bak-uhl, duh-/US // deɪˈbɑ kəl, -ˈbæk əl, də- //UK // (deɪˈbɑːkəl, dɪ-) //

溃败,灾难性事件,残局,灾难

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a general breakup or dispersion; sudden downfall or rout: The revolution ended in a debacle.
    • : a complete collapse or failure.
    • : a breaking up of ice in a river.Compare embacle.
    • : a violent rush of waters or ice.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncatastrophe

Examples

  • There were derelictions and debacles, dreams deferred and hopes dashed.

  • After that debacle, Sanders’ team sought a paid broker to help negotiate the city’s leases and explore other solutions.

  • He wrote a long memo to Monroe describing the need to put out a government statement quickly, thus seizing the narrative and putting the most positive light on the debacle rather than letting the British control the story.

  • Meanwhile, the debacle at Stanford Medical Center, where a system to rank potential vaccine recipients managed to ignore frontline doctors, was proof that you could over-engineer the system too.

  • Thompson left the city in August following a new set of high-profile debacles.

  • But after Rolling Stone's rape story debacle, how much momentum does the call to ban fraternities have left?

  • “I believe we are in the hour of the debacle of the institutions, they cannot be any more rotten,” said Padre Goyo.

  • During this debacle, she read some medical literature on self-dehydration.

  • In his post-debacle presser, President Obama told the nation “I hear you.”

  • In the event, debacle that it was, Kennedy refused to listen to them.

  • It was a return to a state of mind comparable to that which had rendered possible the debacle of the Roman Empire.

  • The German advance which ended in this debacle has been the costliest defeat in point of materials which they have yet suffered.

  • Our own sthetic movement was killed almost instantaneously by the Wilde debacle.

  • Bruce Gordon looked at the debacle left behind the drunken, looting mob.

  • In the Baltic the situation became very difficult owing first to the Russian revolution and, finally, to the Russian debacle.