Debacle: alternatives and connections

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

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To fall together suddenly, as the sides of a hollow vessel; to close by falling or shrinking together; to have the sides or parts of (a thing) fall i…

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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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A washing away; an overflowing of the land by water; an inundation; a flood; specifically, The Deluge, the great flood in the days of Noah (Gen. vii.…

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A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, rising, swelling, and overflowing land…

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The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.

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of Lick

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of Drub

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A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

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The act of killing.

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of Thresh

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of Trounce

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of Wallop

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of Whip

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