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Forlorn Hope

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Noun

1. forlorn hope

a hopeless or desperate enterprise

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Forlorn Hope

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noun
1. 
a hopeless or desperate enterprise
2. 
a faint hope
3. obsolete
a group of soldiers assigned to an extremely dangerous duty

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Forlorn Hope

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1. 
a group of soldiers detached from the main group for a very dangerous mission
2. 
a desperate undertaking; enterprise with very little chance of success
3. 
a faint hope

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Forlorn Hope

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n.
1. An arduous or nearly hopeless undertaking.
2. An advance guard of troops sent on a hazardous mission.

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