All debacle synonyms

noun debacle

• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
• crash — A crash is an accident in which a moving vehicle hits something and is damaged or destroyed.
• disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
• rout — a bellow.
• fiasco — a complete and ignominious failure.
• downfall — descent to a lower position or standing; overthrow; ruin.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• reversal — an act or instance of reversing.
• defeat — If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
• beating — If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
• collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
• ruination — the act or state of ruining or the state of being ruined.
• smash — to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound, as by striking, letting fall, or dashing against something; shatter: He smashed the vase against the wall.
• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• licking — a stroke of the tongue over something.
• havoc — great destruction or devastation; ruinous damage.
• overthrow — to depose, as from a position of power; overcome, defeat, or vanquish: to overthrow a tyrant.
• dissolution — the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts or elements.
• trouncing — to beat severely; thrash.
• washout — a washing out of earth, gravel, etc., by water, as from an embankment or a roadway by heavy rain or by a flash flood.
• catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
• shambles — a shambling gait.
• tragedy — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
• calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
• misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
• farce — a light, humorous play in which the plot depends upon a skillfully exploited situation rather than upon the development of character.
• defeasance — the act or process of rendering null and void; annulment
• unvanquished — to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
• blue ruin — (Slang) (now archaic) Low-end gin, usually home-made.
• shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.