Debacle vs Weary - What's the difference?
debacle | weary |
An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously, often with humiliating consequences.
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* 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 ,
* 2002, Jacqueline West, South America, Central America and the Carribean 2002 , Routledge, ISBN 1-857431-21-9, page 68,
* 2007 , BP pipeline failure: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources , "Statement by Peter Van Tuyn",
(ecology) A breaking up of a natural dam, usually made of ice, by a river and the ensuing rush of water.
* 1836 , , How to Observe: Geology ,
* 1837 , John Lee Comstock, Outlines of Geology ,
* 1872, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution'',
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
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*1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :
*:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .
*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
*:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.
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*:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
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Expressive of fatigue.
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Causing weariness; tiresome.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:weary way
*(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*:There passed a weary time.
To make or to become weary.
* Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )
* Milton
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
As verbs the difference between debacle and weary
is that debacle is while weary is to make or to become weary.As an adjective weary is
having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.debacle
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(en noun)- The event proved to be a great debacle for the partisans of this prognosticator.
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- The result is a military approach which maximizes political tensions with Russia and lays the ground for a military debacle .
- 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.
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- The BP Prudhoe Bay debacle [the thus provides but the latest in a long line of reasons why leasing this region of the NPR-A is a bad idea.
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- For several months after the debacle just described, the river Dranse, having no settled channel, shifted its position continually
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- When this débâcle commences
Usage notes
* Although authorities say that the word is properly spelled with both accents their use tends to be variable, with either or both often dropped, particularly in non-technical writing. Its headword in the online Oxford English Dictionary has none.Synonyms
* (An event or enterprise that ends suddenly and disastrously) fiascoReferences
* 2005, Ed. Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-861057-2 * 1998, The Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Oxford Dictionary'', Dorling Kindersley Limited and Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-7513-1110-3, page 211 * 2006, Ed. Michael Allaby, A Dictionary of Ecology , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860905-1 * 1999, Ed. Robert Allen, Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860947-7 * 1999, Ed. Jennifer Speake, The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English , Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-425-16995-2weary
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* See alsoDerived terms
* wearily * weariness * wearisomeVerb
(en-verb)- So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
- I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.