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Pyrrhic Victory

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Noun

1. pyrrhic victory

a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Pyrrhic Victory

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noun
a victory in which the victor's losses are as great as those of the defeated
. Also called: Cadmean victory

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Pyrrhic Victory

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a too costly victory
in reference to either of two victories of Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, over the Romans in 280 and 279 b.c., with very heavy losses

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Pyrrhic Victory

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n.
A victory that is offset by staggering losses.

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