debacle

/day-BAH-kul/noun

a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco

The launch became a debacle within an hour.
Synonyms
fiasco, disaster, collapse
Antonyms
triumph, success
Memory hook
debacle: the ice breaking up and sweeping everything away.

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