Sekirov Dictionary

defeat

/dɪˈfiːt/

verb 4
noun 4
forms 6

verb4

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to make someone lose a battle or a game by being the stronger side
- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
To prevent (something) from being achieved.
•
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. — 1664
•
To nullify
- The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession. — 1827

noun4

•
The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
•
The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
•
Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title. — 1909
•
(no longer used) Destruction, ruin.
- and made defeat of her virginity — 1598

forms

defeated · defeatedst · defeating · defeateth · defeats · defeatest

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