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- [dih-feet]
- /dɪˈfit/
- /dɪˈfiːt/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [dih-feet]
- /dɪˈfit/
Definitions of defeat word
- verb defeat If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest. 3
- verb defeat If a proposal or motion in a debate is defeated, more people vote against it than for it. 3
- verb defeat If a task or a problem defeats you, it is so difficult that you cannot do it or solve it. 3
- verb defeat To defeat an action or plan means to cause it to fail. 3
- variable noun defeat Defeat is the experience of being beaten in a battle, game, or contest, or of failing to achieve what you wanted to. 3
- verb defeat to overcome in a contest or competition; win a victory over 3
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Origin of defeat
First appearance:
before 1325 One of the 16% oldest English words
1325-75; Middle English defeten (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire to undo, destroy < Medieval Latin disfacere, equivalent to Latin dis- dis-1 + facere to do
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Parts of speech for Defeat
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
defeat popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 98% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
defeat usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for defeat
noun defeat
- blow — When a wind or breeze blows, the air moves.
- loss — detriment, disadvantage, or deprivation from failure to keep, have, or get: to bear the loss of a robbery.
- massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
- collapse — If a building or other structure collapses, it falls down very suddenly.
- drubbing — a blow with a stick or the like.
verb defeat
- crush — To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- overpower — to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- overwhelm — to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
Antonyms for defeat
noun defeat
- accomplishment — An accomplishment is something remarkable that has been done or achieved.
- achievement — An achievement is something which someone has succeeded in doing, especially after a lot of effort.
- success — the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors; the accomplishment of one's goals.
- win — to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
- boon — You can describe something as a boon when it makes life better or easier for someone.
verb defeat
- aid — Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves.
- assist — If you assist someone, you help them to do a job or task by doing part of the work for them.
- attract — If something attracts people or animals, it has features that cause them to come to it.
- release — to lease again.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
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