defeat
IPA: dɪfˈit
noun
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
verb
- (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
- (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- (transitive) To nullify
- To prevent (something) from being achieved.
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