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total defeat

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meanings of totaland defeat


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total
adjective
uk /ˈtəʊ.təl/ us /ˈtoʊ.t̬əl/
including ...
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defeat
noun[C or U]
uk /dɪˈfiːt/ us /dɪˈfiːt/
the fact of losing against someone in a fight or competition, or when someone or something is made ...
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Examples of total defeat


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His determination during seven years of conflict, when at times he looked close to totaldefeat, was self-evident.
It is purely vindictive and as such it is an admission of totaldefeat and total despair because it allows no possibility of correction.
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But we must of course prepare for the survival of a militarist régime till that régime is compelled to acknowledge totaldefeat.
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Even if we escape totaldefeat we shall have to endure great suffering from loss of commerce and food supply.
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There has not been a totaldefeat of the enemy resulting in the challenge of rebuilding a country from scratch.
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I do not mean by that, necessarily, a totaldefeat; but the aggression must be shown not to have been successful.
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First, it had seen the totaldefeat of communism at a time when that ideology was advancing throughout the hemisphere.
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That party received a complete and totaldefeat.
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In the years 1940 and 1941 we faced a situation when we were nearer to totaldefeat than perhaps at any time in the whole of our history.
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But now we could virtually double our expenditure on national defence without rendering the possibility of totaldefeat, and indeed of annihilation in war, any less likely.
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Not only had they lost their fine castles, but their relief attempt had resulted in totaldefeat.
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