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Noun Concept
Categories: Military strategy, Attrition warfare, Military terminology, Pyrrhic War, Victory
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Pyrrhic victory  Pyhrric Victory  Empty victory  Hollow victory  Phyrric victory
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A victory that is won by incurring terrible losses WordNet 3.0
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A victory that is won by incurring terrible losses WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Wikipedia
A victory at devastating cost Wikipedia Disambiguation
Victory at an unsustainable cost Wikidata
A victory which was achieved with great sacrifice and possibly amounts to a defeat. OmegaWiki
A very costly victory, wherein the considerable losses outweigh the gain, so as to render the struggle not worth the cost. Wiktionary
A costly victory. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
victory
metonymy
success
HAS INSTANCE
Battle of Langensalza
DIFFERENT FROM
Cadmean victory
NAMED AFTER
Pyrrhus
Battle of Asculum
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Pyrrhic victory
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Pyrrhic victory
Wikidata
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Pyrrhic victory
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Pyrrhic victory
OmegaWiki
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Pyrrhic victory
Wikipedia Redirections
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Empty victory, Hollow victory, Phyrric victory, Pyhrric Victory, Pyhrric victory, Pyrhhic victory, Pyrrhic defeat, Pyrrhic victories, Pyrrhic Victory, Winning the battle but losing the war

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