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


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