débâcle

débâcle

1. katastrofi, fiasko (yleensä kuv.)

2. (sota yms.) luhistuminen, (rintaman murtuminen ja kaoottinen) perääntyminen; hötäkkä, äkkilähtö

3. jäidenlähtö; hyöky, äkkitulva

Esimerkkejä débâcle sanan käytöstä:

Tax debacle could cost you £100 each month (Independent, 6.9.2010)

Synonyymisanakirja: débâcle

débâcle

1. romahtaminen, sortuminen, romahdus, mullistus, fiasko, tappio, häviö, selkäsauna, löylytys, rökitys, murskatappio, päihitys, rökäletappio, tulva, vedenpaisumus, jäidenlähdön aiheuttama tulva.

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Riimisanakirja: débâcle

débâcle rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. suklaa-, valkea-, mega-, giga-, haja-, laaka-, raaka-, taka-, deka-, seka-...

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Käännökset: débâcle

débâcle suomeksi

• o, epäonnistuminen

• laukeaminen

débâcle englanniksi

debacle

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

• 1952, w:Maimonides Maimonides, translated by Boaz Cohen, w:Epistle to Yemen|Epistle to Yemen s:Epistle to Yemen/XV|page 5,

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

• 1996, Richard L. Canby, "SOF: An Alternative Perspective on Doctrine", in Schultz et al (eds), Roles And Missions of SOF In The Aftermath Of The Cold War, http://books.google.ca/books?id=4cL366lEXXYC&pg=PA188&vq=debacle&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U2ploE86HBGFygXYHid2sTmm_-Fhg p. 188,

The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia (..) and lays the ground for a military debacle.

• 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Carribean 2002, Routledge, ISBN 1-857431-21-9, page 68,

The Falklands-Malvinas débâcle provided the opportunity to restructure the military High Command; Alfonsín removed anti-democratic senior officers and replaced them with more co-operative ones.

• 2007, BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, "Statement by Peter Van Tuyn", http://books.google.ca/books?id=PE2_-3X4G9sC&pg=PA46&vq=debacle&source=gbs_search_r&cad=1_1&sig=ACfU3U04zvnb6kZ0563gBQJXa9YTnOSgwA p. 46,

The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle the w:Prudhoe Bay oil spill|Prudhoe Bay oil spill thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.

• puhekieltä A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

• 1836, w:Henry De La Beche|Henry De La Beche, How to Observe: Geology, http://books.google.ca/books?id=3xQ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=debacle p. 69

(..) 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, (..)

• 1837, John Lee Comstock, Outlines of Geology, http://books.google.ca/books?id=URoXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA51&vq=debacle p. 51

For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually (..)

• 1872, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution'', http://books.google.ca/books?id=_Y8KAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA425&vq=debacle p. 425,

When this débâcle commences (..), the masses of ice, drifting with the current and unable to pass, are hurled upon those already soldered together; thus an enormous barrier is formed (..)

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