meaning of defeat
1. To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
2. To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
3. To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
4. To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
5. An undoing or annulling; destruction.
6. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
7. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
8. an unsuccessful ending
Related Words
defeat | defeated | defeating | defeatism | defeatist | defeature | defeatured |
