overwhelming victory

collocation in English

meaningsofoverwhelmingandvictory

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overwhelming
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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victory
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈvɪk.tər.i/us
/ˈvɪk.tɚ.i/
an occasion when you win a game, competition, election, war, etc. or the fact that you ...
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(Definition ofoverwhelmingandvictoryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Although those voting for the pro reform side won anoverwhelmingvictory, the results were voided because the turnout was under 50 per cent.
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Our fleet must get anoverwhelmingvictoryin the very first action.
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These results were anoverwhelmingvictoryfor the movement in favour of autonomy.
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It is true to say in that sense thatoverwhelmingvictoryalone will solve that problem.
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We intend to win anoverwhelmingvictoryagainst the other side.
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Who in his senses, as the leader of any political party on the eve of his ownoverwhelmingvictory, would involve himself, his party and country in violent revolution?
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We also won an unprecedented proportion of the votes of first-time voters, without which we could not have achieved such anoverwhelmingvictory.
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If we were then to make a similar comparison between the 12 countries of the euro and the dollar area, the result would be anoverwhelmingvictory.
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We imagined that now, with theiroverwhelmingvictoryat the polls, he would drop that particular line.
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They have won anoverwhelmingvictory.
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It is one thing for a general to win a tactical success and another thing for him to follow it up and turn it into anoverwhelmingvictory.
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Labour achieved anoverwhelmingvictory, taking 53 out of 80 seats.
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In the short term, the battle was anoverwhelmingvictoryfor management.
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This last one, although a victory, unfortunately, was not anoverwhelmingvictory.
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The result, due to electoral fraud, was anoverwhelmingvictoryof 90 percent.
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In other depictions, the aliens score anoverwhelmingvictoryover humanity and the bulk of the story occurs after the aliens have taken over.
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If the consul won anoverwhelmingvictory, he was hailed as imperator by his troops, and could request to be granted a triumph.
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He won anoverwhelmingvictoryin the polls sweeping 88.7 percent of the vote, compared to his competitor who only gained 4 percent.
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In the 1963 local election, in his second attempt at the mayoralty, he won anoverwhelmingvictoryagainst an unpopular opponent.
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I have always urged fighting wars and other contentions with might and main tilloverwhelmingvictoryand then extending the hand of friendship to the vanquished.
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