defeated army

collocation in English

meaningsofdefeatandarmy

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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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army
noun
uk
/ˈɑː.mi/us
/ˈɑːr.mi/
a particular country's ...
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(Definition ofdefeatandarmyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I do not think we are adefeatedarmy.
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The coalition forces could not have continued to fight adefeatedarmy.
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To thedefeatedarmywar is a much more horrible thing, although they may have the consolation of having done their duty and struggled against impossible odds.
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Subjecting a particular area to contributions was deemed more important than pursuing adefeatedarmyfrom the battlefield to destroy it.
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Buffy wakes up where she was dropped, partially covered in snow, and sees the survivors of herdefeatedarmybeing ushered into some transport vehicles.
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The victors in a battle would advance and their supply chain would necessarily become longer, while thedefeatedarmycould retreat, regroup and resupply.
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However, the remnants of thedefeatedarmyremained in quasi-official units of a couple-of-hundred to a thousand-or-so.
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Cabet found his supporters in disarray, in the deplorable spirit of adefeatedarmy, to borrow words from an official history by the group.
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Crdoba systematically pursued defeated armies after a victory to minimize future resistance.
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Mongolics also took hold of engineers from the defeated armies.
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