débâcle
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l/, /deɪˈbɑːklə/
- Rhymes: -ɑːkəl
Noun
débâcle (plural débâcles)
- 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
French
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Deverbal from débâcler.
Noun
débâcle f (plural débâcles)
- (geology) debacle (break-up of ice dam)
- (figurative) debacle (fiasco)
- (historical, with definite article) the French defeat in the Battle of France (May–June 1940)
- 2015 November 22, Alain Paire, “Années 40 à Aix : un écrivain renaissant du nom de Cendrars”, in La Provence[1], →ISSN:
- Blaise Cendrars, auteur de "La main coupée" et "L'homme foudroyé", s'était retiré à Aix lors de la débâcle. Il y réapprit le goût d'écrire.
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Related terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Non-lemma forms
Verb
débâcle
- inflection of débâcler:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “débâcle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.