English Dictionary

debacle

/deɪˈbɑː.kəl/

noun

An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences. / (ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

The company's financial debacle led to its bankruptcy.

意味（1）

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

The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.

意味（2）

(ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

[…] so that in extreme cases the latter may even be dammed up for a time, and a debacle be the consequence, when the main river overcomes the resistance opposed to it, […]