waterloo

Words with a similar base: waterloo

'waterloo'

[waterloo.n.01] as in: a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat

'waterloo'

[waterloo.n.02] as in: a final crushing defeat

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Examples:
he met his waterloo

'waterloo'

[waterloo.n.03] as in: the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon