Dictionary Entry
defeat
defeat is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as transitive verb, verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- 2transitive verb
To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
- 3transitive verb
To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
- 4transitive verb
To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
- 5verb
An undoing or annulling; destruction.
- 6verb
Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
- 7verb
An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
- 8noun
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
"it was a narrow defeat"
"the army's only defeat"
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- 9noun
the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
Synonyms
- 10verb
win a victory over
"You must overcome all difficulties"
"defeat your enemies"
Synonyms
- 11verb
thwart the passage of
"kill a motion"
"he shot down the student's proposal"
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