[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

debacle \deba"cle\, n. f. d'eb^acle, fr. d'eb^acler to
   unbar, break loose; pref. d'e- prob. = l. dis + b^acler
   to bolt, fr. l. baculum a stick.
   1. geol. a breaking or bursting forth; a violent rush or
      flood of waters which breaks down opposing barriers, and
      hurls forward and disperses blocks of stone and other
      d'ebris.
      1913 webster

   2. a sudden breaking up or breaking loose; a violent
      dispersion or disruption; impetuous rush; outburst.
      webster 1913 suppl.

   3. a complete and ludicrous failure; a rout, as of an army; a
      great disaster; a fiasco.
      pjc
see also:
fiasco 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

debacle
     n 1: a sudden and violent collapse syn: fiasco
     2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river
        during the spring or summer
     3: a sound defeat syn: thrashing, walloping, drubbing, slaughter,
         trouncing, whipping
see also:
fiasco thrashing walloping drubbing slaughter trouncing 
whipping 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

106 moby thesaurus words for "debacle":
   waterloo, beating, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, breakdown,
   breaking up, breakup, cascade, cataclysm, cataract, catastrophe,
   cave, cave-in, chute, clean slate, clean sweep, collapse, comedown,
   computer revolution, conquering, conquest, convulsion,
   counterrevolution, crack-up, crash, deathblow, declension,
   declination, defeasance, defeat, defluxion, descending, descension,
   descent, destruction, disaster, down, downbend, downcome,
   downcurve, downfall, downflow, downgrade, downpour, downrush,
   downtrend, downturn, downward trend, drop, dropping, drubbing,
   failure, fall, falling, gravitation, hiding, inclination,
   lambasting, lathering, licking, mastery, overcoming, overthrow,
   overturn, palace revolution, plummeting, pounce, quietus,
   radical change, rapids, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war,
   revulsion, rout, ruin, shellacking, shipwreck, smash, smashup,
   spasm, stoop, striking alteration, subdual, subduing, subjugation,
   subversion, sweeping change, swoop, tabula rasa,
   technological revolution, thrashing, total change, total loss,
   transilience, trimming, trouncing, undoing, upset, vanquishment,
   violent change, washout, waterfall, whipping, wrack, wreck

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ongoing · The DRM Debacle
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Electronic Voting Debacle | The Register
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/34051.html, score=44, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 2:45 pm

CNN.com - A Democratic debacle - Oct. 9, 2003
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/09/column.novak.opinion.debacle/index.html, score=43, date indexed=December 31, 2005, 11:53 pm

TAP: Web Feature: Debacle. by Harold Meyerson. November 6, 2002.
...f the Democrats had a paradigmatic candidate in this debacle year, it ... Debacle. Without vision, the party -- well, a Senate majority -- ... ..
http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2002/11/meyerson-h-11-06.html, score=40, date indexed=January 10, 2006, 2:54 pm

Market Opinion - Hand Me the Pliers
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http://home.flash.net/~stevew9/opinion/opinion010.htm, score=37, date indexed=December 30, 2005, 2:42 pm

"Deciphering the Democrats' Debacle" by Ruy Teixeira
...May 2003 Deciphering the Democrats' Debacle. Why the Republican ... a softie whose party is implicated in a major foreign policy debacle. ... ..
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