DEBACLE

also débâcle noun Etymology: French débâcle, from débâcler to clear, from Middle French desbacler, from des- de- + bacler to block, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bacculare, from Latin baculum staff Date: 1802 a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river, a violent disruption (as of an army) ; rout , 3. a great disaster, a complete failure ; fiasco