defeat
Meaning of defeat
verb
- To overcome in battle or contest.
Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- To nullify
- 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; nullification.
- Destruction, ruin.
Information about defeat
- The plural form of defeat is: defeats.
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Hyphenation of defeat
de-feat
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- defeat is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
defeat synonyms
Meaning licking:
Meaning frustration:
Meaning get the better of:
Meaning kill:
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defeat antonyms
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Translation of defeat
- French: défaite, battre, gagner, vaincre
- German: Niederlage, schlagen, besiegen, überwinden
- Portuguese: derrota, derrotar
- Spanish: derrota, ganar, triunfar, vencer, dominar, derrotar
- Italian: disfatta, sconfitta, vincere, battere, sconfiggere
Anagrams of defeat
Words that rhyme with defeat
feat, nondefeat, predefeat, redefeat, undefeat, enterfeat, outfeat
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