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pyrrhic

English

  1. 🔊 of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans)
    “a Pyrrhic victory”
  2. 🔊 of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables
    “pyrrhic verses”
  3. 🔊 of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece
    “pyrrhic dance movements”
  4. 🔊 an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
  5. 🔊 a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables

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