defeats
Meaning of defeats
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 defeats
- The singular form of defeats is: defeat.
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Hyphenation of defeats
de-feats
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- defeats is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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