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Adjective pyrrhic has 3 senses
  1. pyrrhic - of or relating to a war dance of ancient Greece; "pyrrhic dance movements"
  2. pyrrhic - of or relating to or containing a metrical foot of two unstressed syllables; "pyrrhic verses"
  3. pyrrhic - of or relating to or resembling Pyrrhus or his exploits (especially his sustaining staggering losses in order to defeat the Romans); "a Pyrrhic victory"
,Noun pyrrhic has 2 senses
  1. pyrrhic, dibrach - a metrical unit with unstressed-unstressed syllables
    --1 is a kind of metrical foot, foot, metrical unit
  2. pyrrhic - an ancient Greek dance imitating the motions of warfare
    --2 is a kind of     ritual dancing, ritual dance, ceremonial dance
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