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"Heavy defeat"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (ROUT).
Definitions
A disorderly defeat or overwhelming victory.
Word origin
The noun is derived from Middle French route (“military defeat; retreat”), from rout, archaic past participle of Middle French, Old French rompre (“to break; to break up, disperse”) (modern French rompre (“to break, snap; to break up (with someone)”)), from Latin rumpere, the present active infinitive of rumpō (“to break, burst, rupture, tear; to force open; (figurative) to annul; to destroy; to interrupt”); see further at etymology 1.
Used in a sentence
“A route of people there aſſembled were, / Of euery ſort and nation vnder skye, [...]”
“The Incorporations this year did moſtly conſiſt of Cantabrigians who had lately come to this University for preferment from the Viſitors, when the great rout of Royalliſts were by then made in this University.”
“'Is there anyone in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Heavy defeat”4 letters
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