Definitions for defeat

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defeat de·feat

Spelling: [dih-feet]

IPA: /dɪˈfit/

Defeat is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in defeat (adeeft).

Definitions for defeat

noun

1. the act of overcoming in a contest:
2. an instance of defeat; setback:
3. an overthrow or overturning; vanquishment:
4. a bringing to naught; frustration:
5. the act or event of being bested; losing:
6. Archaic. undoing; destruction; ruin.

verb (used with object)

1. to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish:
2. to frustrate; thwart.
3. to eliminate or deprive of something expected:
4. Law. to annul.

Origin of defeat

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-

Examples for defeat

But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

In my lifetime—in depression and in war—they have awaited our defeat.

Lucretia's defeat in the Handicap had increased his despondency.

That defeat was driven largely by Romney losing women voters by an insurmountable 11 points.

You know what you have to expect from the Syracusans, if this last struggle should end in defeat.

In recent days, there has been a subtle feeling of defeat permeating through the camp.

Then there came upon him to reinforce this want a burning sense of defeat.

After the defeat of ISIS in Sinjar, most other locals have been left wondering who might rule the city in the near future.

He rebuffed calls to institute the death penalty, and his last term as governor ended in his defeat.

Yes, they were wolves leaping at the throat of her father, and joying in the defeat of Lucretia.