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Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment..

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Expect :: Expect (v. t.) To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that); as, I expect to receive wages; I expect that the troops will be defeated..

Disappointment :: Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration..

Faser :: Faser (n.) A blow in the face, as in boxing; hence, any severe or stunning check or defeat, as in controversy..

Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.

Retreat :: Retreat (n.) The withdrawing of a ship or fleet from an enemy for the purpose of avoiding an engagement or escaping after defeat.

Defeat :: Defeat (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory..

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

Peremption :: Peremption (n.) A quashing; a defeating.

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..

Discomfiture :: Discomfiture (v. t.) The act of discomfiting, or the state of being discomfited; rout; overthrow; defeat; frustration; confusion and dejection..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass..

Chappion :: Chappion (n.) One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England..

Defeat :: Defeat (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..

Frustrable :: Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Avail :: Avail (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease..

Profligation :: Profligation (n.) Defeat; rout; overthrow.

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