verb, noun
verb [VN]
1 to win against sb in a war, competition, sports game, etc.
SYNBEAT:
He defeated the champion in three sets. * a defeated army * The government was defeated by 200 votes to 83.
2 (formal) if sth defeats you, you cannot understand it:
The instruction manual completely defeated me.
3 to stop sth from being successful:
The motion was defeated by 19 votes. * Staying late at the office to discuss shorter working hours rather defeats the object of the exercise!
Part of speech: noun
1 [U,C] failure to win or to be successful:
The party faces defeat in the election. * a narrow / heavy defeat * The world champion has only had two defeats in 20 fights. * They finally had to admit defeat (= stop trying to be successful).
2 [C,usually sing.] the act of winning a victory over sb/sth:
the defeat of fascism
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for defeat is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is defeat a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, defeat is tagged as noun.
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