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

Defeated :: Defeated (imp. & p. p.) of Defea.

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

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..

Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Frustrative :: Frustrative (a.) Tending to defeat; fallacious.

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

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat or foil thoroughly in any scheme.

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

Anatreptic :: Anatreptic (a.) Overthrowing; defeating; -- applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.

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..

Vanquish :: Vanquish (v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute..

Defeat :: Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.

Outplay :: Outplay (v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball..

Meet :: Meet (v. t.) To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents..

Contravene :: Contravene (v. t.) To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat.

Outwit :: Outwit (v. t.) To surpass in wisdom, esp. in cunning; to defeat or overreach by superior craft..

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

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..

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

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