transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪfi:t ]
( defeats, defeating, defeated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest.
His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954...
= beat
VERB : V n
2.
If a proposal or motion in a debate is defeated , more people vote against it than for it.
The proposal was defeated by just one vote.
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
3.
If a task or a problem defeats you, it is so difficult that you cannot do it or solve it.
There were times when the challenges of writing such a huge novel almost defeated her.
VERB : V n
4.
To defeat an action or plan means to cause it to fail.
The navy played a limited but significant role in defeating the rebellion...
= thwart
VERB : V n
5.
Defeat is the experience of being beaten in a battle, game, or contest, or of failing to achieve what you wanted to.
The most important thing is not to admit defeat until you really have to...
The vote is seen as a defeat for the anti-abortion lobby...
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