débâcle
See also: debacle and débâclé
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.
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Anagrams
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.bakl/, /de.bɑkl/
Etymology 1
Deverbal from débâcler
Noun
débâcle f (plural débâcles)
- debacle
Descendants
- → Czech: debakl
- → Dutch: debacle
- → English: debacle
- → German: Debakel
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.