Synonym: drubbing, fiasco, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping. Similar words: debar, debate, manacle, miracle, debatable, tentacle, pinnacle, obstacle. Meaning: n. 1. a sudden and violent collapse 2. flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3. a sound defeat.
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(31) The Bears made some convincing arguments Saturday in a 63-37 debacle against Washington State.
(32) The debacle began shortly after we arrived for dinner one night.
(33) He made parliament come alive with unscripted reports of the heated debates during the Suez debacle.
(34) The repairs debacle has become a political battle symbolising the party's awkward relationship to its own supporters.
(35) The debacle of the 1971-3 property boom clearly demonstrated the significant extent to which city development was impacted by national economic policy.
(36) When Hammaker returned to the Giants' locker room, the walls were papered with stories about his debacle.
(37) The debacle in Poznam featured that old chestnut, the diabolical deflection, known and despised since that tragic afternoon in Gelsenkirchen.
(38) Public opinion polls showed the public blamed Congress, not Clinton, for the debacle.
(39) The debacle over performance pay is just one example of the reality not living up to the rhetoric.
(40) If anyone has been set up to be the white knight in the Democratic Party fund-raising debacle, it is Sen.
(41) The debacle of 1968 was not nearly enough to jolt future conventions into discipline.
(42) The Mississippi River debacle caused great suffering.
(43) The recent Vioxx debacle bears this out.
(44) Both played a role in the Bounty debacle.
(45) The convention was a debacle.
(46) Architects, "were fascinated by the idea of a completely fresh start. And that's entirely understandable after the debacle of Nazism(sentencedict .com), " architect Albert Speer says.
(47) After all, sitting and waiting is how we made money from the subprime debacle.
(48) The debacle at Waterloo signaled the end of Napoleon's power.
(49) But the FutureGen debacle has shown the all too messy reality of innovation.
(50) Razzie voters also made worst - of - the - decade picks , with John Travolta's science - fiction debacle Battlefield Earth winning worst picture.
(51) Back in 2002, in a much-publicized debacle, the copy-protection scheme Sony used was undermined in a decidedly low-tech way: You simply needed to draw a line around the CD with a magic marker.
(52) History will still record that the invasion and occupation have been a debacle.
(53) He engaged in an absurd photo-op to declare "Mission accomplished", and he also gave medals to three of the architects of the debacle, George Tenet, Tommy Franks and Paul Bremer.
(54) This debacle suggests the Bank of England's regime was too strict in a crisis.
(55) Kevin: You could say that, or you could call it a fiasco [sentencedict.com], debacle or( my personal favorite) a complete SNAFU. Take your pick.
(56) But investors, government and rating agencies learned exactly nothing from the manufactured - home debacle.
(57) Environment risk analysis of dam debacle in tailing pond in rainstorm for construction of phosphorite beneficiation plant with the craft of reelection-flotation was studied.
(58) Worse still, investment bankers moonlighting as replacement refs are responsible for the Facebook IPO debacle.
(59) And don't use the debacle to start a general discussion about the difficulties in your relationship.
(60) It's also what we ourselves did after the savings and loan debacle of the Reagan years.
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