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Discover LudwigThe phrase "complete defeat" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation where an individual or group has suffered a comprehensive loss or failure. Example: Despite their best efforts, the team suffered a complete defeat in the championship game.
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The final troop withdrawal marks a complete defeat for Bush's Iraq project.
Only the strong stand of Gen. George H. Thomas on the North's left averted complete defeat.
The allied troops trapped in northern France were rescued from complete defeat by an improvised evacuation, Operation Dynamo.
By any military standards, Mr Sharon and his compatriots had turned the Egyptian attack into a complete defeat.
Political analysts and some Hezbollah supporters in Lebanon said that Hezbollah would enter the war only if Hamas were on the verge of complete defeat.
This lockout is a long way from the loss of a whole season and the complete defeat of one side by the other.
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Her decapitation of Maria Sharapova in the Olympic final was one of the more complete defeats of a worthy opponent in recent sports history.
We had no choice but to take the coach to a succession of cemeteries and memorial gardens in appalling weather: and I could do nothing but stand by and watch as my son's mood turned from hope, to despair, to complete and utter defeat.
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Being complete knowing defeat keeping on from year to year.
The complete Spanish defeat seemed imminent.
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