Synonyms of the word

debacle

• n. An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
• n. (ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.

alluvion

• n. (law) The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

collapse

• v. (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
• v. (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
• v. (intransitive) To fold compactly.
• v. (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession.
• v. (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
• v. (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
• n. The act of collapsing.
• n. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

defeat

• v. (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
• v. (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
• v. (transitive) To nullify.
• n. The act of defeating or being defeated.

deluge

• n. A great flood or rain.
• n. An overwhelming amount of something; anything that overwhelms or causes great destruction.
• n. (Military engineering) A damage control system on navy warships which is activated by excessive temperature…
• v. (transitive) To flood with water.
• v. (transitive) To overwhelm.

drubbing

• v. present participle of drub.
• n. A severe beating; a bace.
• n. A thorough defeat.

fiasco

• n. A sudden or unexpected failure.
• n. A ludicrous or humiliating situation. Some effort that went quite wrong.
• n. A wine bottle in a (usually straw) jacket.

flood

• n. A (usually disastrous) overflow of water from a lake or other body of water due to excessive rainfall…
• n. (figuratively) A large number or quantity of anything appearing more rapidly than can easily be dealt…
• n. The flowing in of the tide, opposed to the ebb.
• n. A floodlight.
• n. Menstrual discharge; menses.
• n. (obsolete) Water as opposed to land.
• v. To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall.
• v. To cover or partly fill as if by a flood.
• v. (figuratively) To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than cannot…
• v. (Internet, computing) To paste numerous lines of text to a chat system in order to disrupt the conversation.

inundation

• n. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of…
• n. (metaphorical) An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx.

licking

• n. An act of licking.
• n. (slang) A severe beating.
• n. (slang) A great loss or defeat.
• v. present participle of lick.

slaughter

• n. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
• n. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
• n. A rout or decisive defeat.
• v. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
• v. (transitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
• v. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner.

thrashing

• v. present participle of thrash.
• n. action of the verb to thrash.
• n. a beating, especially a severe one.
• n. (slang) A heavy defeat.
• n. (computing) excessive paging within virtual storage.
• n. (dance) slam dancing.
• n. (colloquial) threshing (of cereal crop, etc).

trouncing

• v. present participle of trounce.
• n. A thorough defeat.

walloping

• adj. whopping, large in size.
• adj. of exceptional, impressive quality.
• n. A series of wallops (blows.).
• n. (figuratively) Verbal abuse.
• v. present participle of wallop.

whipping

• n. (countable) The punishment of being whipped.
• n. (countable) A heavy defeat; a thrashing.
• n. (uncountable) A cooking technique in which air is incorporated into cream etc.
• n. (countable) A cord or thread used to lash or bind something.
• n. (nautical, whipping) The lashing of the end of a rope. (FM 55-501).
• v. present participle of whip.