defeated
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’.
'defeated' also found in these Oxford entries:
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- craven
- defeat
- fall
- go
- indemnity
- invincible
- limitation
- lump
- marathon
- Menshevik
- nowhere
- pyrrhic
- rebel
- regroup
- reparation
- rout
- split
- stonkered
- trophy
- unassailable
- unbeatable
- unbeaten
- unchallengeable
- unchallenged
- undefeated
- unelectable
- Waterloo
- yoke

