DEFEAT
\dɪfˈiːt], \dɪfˈiːt], \d_ɪ_f_ˈiː_t]\
Definitions of DEFEAT
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
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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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To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
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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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An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; - opposed to victory.
By Oddity Software
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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
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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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To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
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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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An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; - opposed to victory.
By Noah Webster.
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To overthrow or vanquish; as, to defeat an enemy; bring to naught; frustrate; as, to defeat a purpose.
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Act of preventing or bringing to naught; overthrow; the state of being conquered.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Thomas Sheridan
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