DEBACLE
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DEBACLE /deɪˈbɑːk(ə)l /
▸ noun a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco:
the only man to reach double figures in the second-innings debacle.
– ORIGIN early 19th century (in sense ‘the breaking up of ice in a river’): from French débâcle, from débâcler ‘unleash’, from dé- ‘un-’ + bâcler ‘to bar’ (from Latin baculum ‘staff’).
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