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Definition of defeat; in English English dictionary
defeat: To overcome in battle or contest
defeat: If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest. His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954 = beat
defeat: {v} to overthrow, rout, destroy, disappoint
defeat: {n} an overthrow, deprivation, destruction
defeat: An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; opposed to victory
defeat: (n ) dormad, dohrmahdh
defeat: {i} act of winning or overcoming; overthrow; instance of being defeated, loss; failure
defeat: If a proposal or motion in a debate is defeated, more people vote against it than for it. The proposal was defeated by just one vote
defeat: To undo; to disfigure; to destroy
defeat: To destroy, ruin, undo, lay waste to
defeat: The act of defeating or being defeated
defeat: To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate
defeat: To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow
defeat: An undoing or annulling; destruction
defeat: To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault
defeat: Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design
defeat: {f} overcome, beat; frustrate
defeat: To defeat an action or plan means to cause it to fail. The navy played a limited but significant role in defeating the rebellion = thwart
defeat: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"
defeat: the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
defeat: thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
defeat: 1 door closed for you to find a better one, 2 need to rethink plan, life, path taken
defeat: prevent declarer from taking the number of tricks required by his contract; set
defeat: Defeat is the experience of being beaten in a battle, game, or contest, or of failing to achieve what you wanted to. The most important thing is not to admit defeat until you really have to The vote is seen as a defeat for the anti-abortion lobby
defeat: If a task or a problem defeats you, it is so difficult that you cannot do it or solve it. There were times when the challenges of writing such a huge novel almost defeated her
defeat: an unsuccessful ending