Etymology: [ di-'fEt, dE- ] (transitive verb.) 14th century. Middle English deffeten, from Middle French deffait, past participle of deffaire to destroy, from Old French desfaire, from Medieval Latin disfacere, from Latin dis- + facere to do; more at DO.
Present participle of to defeat, To destroy, ruin, undo, lay waste to, To overcome in battle or contest, The act of defeating or being defeated, 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, To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow, To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault, An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; opposed to victory, To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate, An undoing or annulling; destruction, Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design, To undo; to disfigure; to destroy, (n ) dormad, dohrmahdh, 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 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, 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, 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, act of winning or overcoming; overthrow; instance of being defeated, loss; failure, overcome, beat; frustrate, an unsuccessful ending, prevent declarer from taking the number of tricks required by his contract; set, 1 door closed for you to find a better one, 2 need to rethink plan, life, path taken, thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal", the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals, 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",
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Present participle of to defeat
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To destroy, ruin, undo, lay waste to
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To overcome in battle or contest
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The act of defeating or being defeated
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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
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To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow
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To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault
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An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; opposed to victory
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To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate
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An undoing or annulling; destruction
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Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design
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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy
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(n ) dormad, dohrmahdh
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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
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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
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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
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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
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act of winning or overcoming; overthrow; instance of being defeated, loss; failure isim
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overcome, beat; frustrate fiil
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an unsuccessful ending
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prevent declarer from taking the number of tricks required by his contract; set
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1 door closed for you to find a better one, 2 need to rethink plan, life, path taken
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thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal"
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the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
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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"
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