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Convict :: Convict (v. t.) To defeat; to doom to destruction.

Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate..

Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose..

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..

Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.

Retreat :: Retreat (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field..

Rebuff :: Rebuff (n.) Sudden check; unexpected repulse; defeat; refusal; repellence; rejection of solicitation.

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..

Lose :: Lose (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest..

Perempt :: Perempt (v. t.) To destroy; to defeat.

Inglorious :: Inglorious (a.) Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc..

Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To defeat in a lawsuit; to decide against; to convict; as, to be cast in damages..

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

Opposition :: Opposition (n.) The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance..

Checkmate :: Checkmate (n.) A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

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

Countermine :: Countermine (n.) A stratagem or plot by which another sratagem or project is defeated.

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Defeasance :: Defeasance (n.) A condition, relating to a deed, which being performed, the deed is defeated or rendered void; or a collateral deed, made at the same time with a feoffment, or other conveyance, containing conditions, on the performance of which the estate then created may be defeated..

Rout :: Rout (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete..

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