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The Meaning of defeat
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(v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
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(v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
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(v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
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(v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
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(v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
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(v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
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(v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
Synonyms
thrashing
,
trouncing
,
frustration
,
whacking
,
drubbing
,
beating
,
lacing
,
licking
,
thwarting
,
foiling
,
surmount
,
vote out
,
overwhelm
,
overcome
,
subdue
,
kill
,
get the best
,
whelm
,
overpower
,
shoot down
,
vote down
,
get the better of
,
sweep over
,
have the best
,
overtake
,
get over
,
master
,
pour down
,
drink down
,
toss off
,
shoot
,
wipe out
,
buck
,
down
,
bolt down
,
pop
,
stamp out
,
belt down
,
tear
,
charge
,
obliterate
,
land
,
turn thumbs down
,
beat
,
bastinado
,
chastise
,
spank
,
thrash
,
batter
,
conquer
,
pommel
,
strike
,
vanquish
,
belabor
,
cudgel
,
pound
,
surpass
,
whip
,
bruise
,
scourge
,
switch
,
worst
,
castigate
,
flog
,
smite
Antonyms
triumph
,
victory
,
fail
,
fall
,
get the worst of
,
go down
,
go under
,
surrender
Rhymes
amit
,
athlete
,
backseat
,
beat
,
beet
,
bittersweet
,
bleat
,
bradstreet
,
breit
,
bridgette
,
browbeat
,
buckwheat
,
bufete
,
cheat
,
cleat
,
cliett
,
compete
,
complete
,
conceit
,
concrete
,
crabmeat
,
crete
,
deadbeat
,
deceit
,
delete
,
deplete
,
discreet
,
discrete
,
downbeat
,
drumbeat
,
eat
,
effete
,
elite
,
excrete
,
feat
,
feet
,
fleet
,
freet
,
gamete
,
gleet
,
greet
,
grete
,
heartbeat
,
heat
,
incomplete
,
indiscreet
,
jobete
,
keitt
,
kriete
,
lalit
,
lanete
,
leet
,
leete
,
leite
,
longstreet
,
margarete
,
marguerite
,
marquerite
,
meat
,
meet
,
mesquite
,
mete
,
mincemeat
,
mistreat
,
murveit
,
neat
,
neet
,
noncompete
,
obsolete
,
offbeat
,
overeat
,
overheat
,
parakeet
,
peat
,
peet
,
peete
,
pete
,
petite
,
piet
,
piette
,
pleat
,
puneet
,
quiett
,
receipt
,
repeat
,
replete
,
retreat
,
seat
,
secrete
,
sheet
,
shumeet
,
skeat
,
skeet
,
skeete
,
sleet
,
spreadsheet
,
st
,
street
,
suite
,
sweatt
,
sweet
,
swete
,
teat
,
teet
,
threatt
,
threet
,
thweatt
,
treat
,
tweet
,
uncomplete
,
unseat
,
upbeat
,
vanvliet
,
veit
,
vliet
,
wheat
,
worksheet