Definition of defeat

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Defeat (v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

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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.
Falsify :: Falsify (a.) To avoid or defeat; to prove false, as a judgment..
Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate..
Worst :: Worst (a.) To gain advantage over, in contest or competition; to get the better of; to defeat; to overthrow; to discomfit..
Frustrative :: Frustrative (a.) Tending to defeat; fallacious.
Worse :: Worse (n.) Loss; disadvantage; defeat.
Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.
Frustrable :: Frustrable (a.) Capable of beeing frustrated or defeated.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse..
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
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..
Defeat :: Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
Abate :: Abate (v. t.) To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates..
Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..
Defeated :: Defeated (imp. & p. p.) of Defea.
Indefeasible :: Indefeasible (a.) Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title..
Victor :: Victor (n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of..
Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart..
Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat..
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..
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