defeat
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
defeat/dɪˈfiːt/
▶verb
- 1 win a victory over.
- 2 prevent the achievement of (an aim): this defeats the object of the exercise.
■ be too difficult for.
■ Law make null and void.
– derivatives
defeated adjective,
defeatedly adverb.
defeated adjective,
defeatedly adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr. desfait ‘undone’, past part. of desfaire, from med. L. disfacere ‘undo’.
'defeat' also found in these Oxford entries:
annihilate
- back
- batter
- beat
- better
- blank
- blow
- bouncebackability
- breakfast
- caning
- checkmate
- clean
- cleaner
- clobber
- cocked hat
- comprehensive
- concede
- confound
- count
- cream
- credible
- cropper
- defeasance
- demolish
- discomfit
- dish
- do
- drub
- edge
- evade
- evict
- fall
- finish
- foil
- gammon
- give
- going-over
- hammer
- Hellenistic
- hiding
- hollow
- humble
- indomitable
- lick
- loss
- massacre
- mincemeat
- moral victory
- muller
