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Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

Frustration :: Frustration (n.) The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs.

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

Indefeasible :: Indefeasible (a.) Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulled or made void; as, an indefeasible or title..

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.

Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Fight :: Fight (v. i.) To strive or contend for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in arms; -- followed by with or against..

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump..

Counteract :: Counteract (v. t.) To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice..

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

Defeature :: Defeature (n.) Disfigurement; deformity.

Defeature :: Defeature (n.) Overthrow; defeat.

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

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

Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..

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

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

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

Overwar :: Overwar (v. t.) To defeat.

Defeating :: Defeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defea.

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