Term: pyrrhic victory: a victory that is won by incurring terrible losses
Candidate hypernym: victory: a successful ending of a struggle or contest → 1
Candidate hypernym: pitter-patter: a series of rapid tapping sounds → 0
Candidate hypernym: striped marlin: Pacific food and game fish marked with dark blue vertical stripes → 0
Candidate hypernym: pinball: a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets → 0
Candidate hypernym: rubber boot: a high boot made of rubber → 0
Candidate hypernym: vest pocket: a small pocket in a man's vest → 0
Candidate hypernym: inadmissibility: unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible → 0
Candidate hypernym: simoniz: a brand of car polish → 0
Candidate hypernym: rest-cure: rest as a medical treatment for stress or anxiety etc. → 0
Candidate hypernym: emerald shiner: small blunt-nosed fish of Great Lakes and Mississippi valley with a greenish luster → 0
Candidate hypernym: purple-fringed orchid: North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers → 0