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One might also think of a Pyrrhic victory as a battle of attrition where both sides wear each others down until the other exhausts their resources, hence it could be an attritive victory. However, this is a slightly different context.
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What is the word for a war won at too great a cost?
Pyrrhic Victory
How do you pronounce the Latin word Pyrrhic?
pirric to rhyme with lyric. A pyrrhic victory is one gained at huge cost - like London getting the 2012 Olympics
What is a word that starts with an a and means victory?
Achievement is a synonym for victory. It begins with the letter A.
What is the word for describing something as an animal?
a synonym for animal is creature.
What is an antonym for the word conquer?
A synonym for victory is conquest. An antonym for victory is defeat.
What does a "pyrrhic victory" mean?
The question is wrong. It means to say what does a Pyrrhic victory mean? Which is indeed to win a battle but not the war. However, the word it uses, phyric, means an igneous rock texture containing phenocrysts. Rocks are much smarter than humans, and do not fight battles and wars, so the question in its current form makes no sense.
What is a synonym for Mediterranean?
Mediterranean describes a place surrounded nearly or completely by dry land. There are no synonyms for the describing word Mediterranean.
What is describing word?
An adjective is a describing word.
What is a synonym of a synonym?
synonymize
What is a synonym for verbatim?
"Word for word" is a synonym for verbatim.
easy is a describing word?
yes it is a describing word
What is a noun for synonym?
"Alternate word" is a noun-phrase that is kind of a synonym for the word "synonym. There is no one exact word that means the same as synonym.
