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Dictionary: wa·ter·loo
('tər-lū', wŏt'ər-, wô'tər-lū', wŏt'ər-) pronunciation
n., pl., -loos.
A final, crushing defeat.

[After WATERLOO, Belgium.]


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(WOT-uhr-loo) pronunciation

noun
A crushing or final defeat.

Etymology
After Waterloo, a village in central Belgium where the Battle of Waterloo took place in 1815. That was Napoleon Bonaparte's last battle. He was decisively defeated by the British and Prussian forces and exiled to the island of Saint Helena

Usage
"Even masters like Charles, Walcott, and Moore all met their Waterloos against hard-hitting Rocky Marciano, who retired undefeated in 1956." — David A. Avila; Two Heavyweights Try It One More Time; The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California); Jan 6, 2007.


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noun

    A disastrous overwhelming defeat or ruin: collapse, downfall, fall. See thrive/fail/exist.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - Waterloo

n. - Waterloo

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    møde sit Waterloo

Nederlands (Dutch)
Waterloo

Français (French)
n. - Waterloo

n. - Waterloo

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    trouver son maître

Deutsch (German)
n. - Waterloo, entscheidende Niederlage

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    sein Waterloo erleben

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - Βατερλό

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    γίνεται το Βατερλό μου

Italiano (Italian)
Waterloo

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    subire una disfatta

Português (Portuguese)
n. - Waterloo

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    ter uma perda irremediável

Русский (Russian)
Ватерлоо, сражение у Ватерлоо, последняя, решающая битва, разгром

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    потерпеть поражение

Español (Spanish)
n. - Waterloo, derrota decisiva

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    llegarle su San Martín, sufrir una derrota decisiva

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - Waterloo

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
滑铁卢, 惨败

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    遭到惨败

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 滑鐵盧, 慘敗

idioms:

  • meet one's waterloo    遭到慘敗

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 워털루 (벨기에 중부의 마을; 1815년 나폴레옹의 패전지), 참패, 대패배, 파멸의 원인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ワーテルロー, 惨敗

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هزيمه حاسمه على اسم المكان في بلجيكا حيث انهزم نابوليون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תבוסה, מפלה כבדה, סוף בלתי-נמנע, ווטרלו‬


 
 
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