defeat
/dɪˈfit/ verb B1- To overcome in battle or contest. · Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- To nullify
- To prevent (something) from being achieved.
Plural defeat · He/she/it defeats · Past defeated · Past participle defeated · -ing form defeating
Verb forms
- Base form
- defeat
- He/she/it
- defeats
- Past
- defeated
- Past participle
- defeated
- -ing form
- defeating
From the library
“Another hope defeated!” said the count.
The Mice thought that the cause of their frequent defeats was that they had no leaders set apart from the general army to command them, and that they were exposed to dangers from lack of discipline.
“She can declare to you, for example, that your father had no hand whatever in the defeat and death of the vizier; or if by chance he had, indeed, the misfortune to——”
I am, in your opinion, a Lara, a Manfred, a Lord Ruthven; then, just as I am arriving at the climax, you defeat your own end, and seek to make an ordinary man of me.
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