defeat
101go down in defeat — index lose (undergo defeat) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
102suffer defeat — index lose (undergo defeat), quit (discontinue), yield (submit) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
103Day of Defeat — es un videojuego multijugador de la clase FPS ambientado en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Day of Defeat, abreviado habitualmente a DoD, empezó siendo un mod (modificación) del juego superventas Half Life pero, del mismo modo que hicieron los autores …
104crushing defeat — major defeat, defeat by a large margin …
105snatch victory from the jaws of defeat — If you manage to win something such as a match or a contest, when you are on the verge of losing, you snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. With a last minute goal, the team snatched victory form the jaws of defeat …
106admit defeat — phrase to accept that you cannot succeed in doing something and stop trying to do it After months of protests, the government was forced to admit defeat and abandon the policy. Thesaurus: to stop doing somethingsynonym to kill a person or… …
107Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity — was a small British Marxist Leninist group, that had left the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1963. CDRCU was led by Michael McCreery. CDRCU was sympathetic towards the Communist Party of China and the Party of Labour of Albania. The group… …
108Strange Defeat — (L Etrange Defaite) is a book written in the summer of 1940 by French historian Marc Bloch and was published after his death in the summer of 1944.The main thesis of the book is that French leadership was failing to recognize that the whole… …
109Saint Clair's Defeat — ▪ United States history (November 4, 1791), one of the worst defeats ever suffered by U.S. forces in Indian warfare, precipitated by British Indian confrontation with settlers and militia in the Northwest Territory following the American… …
110snatch defeat from the jaws of victory — verb To suddenly lose a contest through reversal of fortune, mistakes, or bad judgment. The meaning is analogous to the idiomatic phrase blow it ... since the fall of communism, the West has managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, and… …
