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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..

Defeasance :: Defeasance (n.) A defeat; an overthrow.

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

Confusion :: Confusion (n.) Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

Outvote :: Outvote (v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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

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

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

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..

Preventive :: Preventive (a.) Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease..

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..

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