Defeat

Verb

 * 1)  To overcome in battle or contest
 * 2)  To destroy, ruin, undo, lay waste to

Noun

 * 1) The act of defeating or being defeated

Adjectives for Defeat
humiliating; signal; bitter; gory; ugly; rudest; inevitable; ultimate; impending; intellectual; trivial; unconditional vain; stinging; unwilling; serious; sheer later; subsequent; disheartening; crowning humble; expensive; insignificant; final; inglorious;  decisive;  utter;  undisguised; damned; ignominious; logical; ridiculous; unexpected; smashing; dreadful; heart¬broken; averted; telling; encompassed; paralyzing;  creditable;  pet; disastrous; avowed; acknowledged; tremendous; crushing; graceful; overwhelming; shameful; ignoble; spiritual; dispirited; irretrievable.

Verbs for Defeat
acknowledge—;  administer—;   bear—; brand with—; brood over—; contribute to—; court—; destine to—; doom to—; emerge from—; foredoom to—; foresee—; gesture—; go down in—; invite—; involve—; meet—; pave the way for—; suffer—; thrive upon—; visualize—; writhe at—; —encompasses; —shakes.

Adverbs for Defeat
incessantly; absolutely; successively; decisively; utterly; subsequently; exultantly;

Synonyms for Defeat
conquer, overthrow, rout, vanquish, nonsuccess, failure, repulse, downfall, frustration, rebuff, overthrow, subjugation, beating, extermination, whipping, threshing, destruction.

Antonyms for Defeat
success, victory, mastery, advantage, conquest, triumph, security, supremacy, attainment, ascendancy.

Related terms

 * defeasance
 * defeasible
 * defeater
 * defeatism
 * defeatist
 * defeature

Thesaurus
letdown, lick, licking, losing game, mirage, miscarriage, no go, nonaccomplishment, nonplus, nonsuccess, obstruct, outclass, outdo, outfight, outgeneral, outmaneuver, outpoint, outrun, outsail, outshine, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overturn, overwhelm, parry, perplex, prevail over, put, put to silence, rebuff, rebut, reduce, reduce to silence, refute, repress, repulse, reversal, reverse, rise above, rout, ruin, sabotage, scotch, scuttle, setback, settle, shellacking, shoot down, shut up, silence, sink, skin, skin alive, smash all opposition, sore disappointment, spike, spoil, squash, squelch, stonewall, stop, stump, subdue, subjugate, subvert, successlessness, suppress, surmount, take the cake, tantalization, tantalize, tease, terminate, thrash, thrashing, thwart, thwarting, torpedo, trim, triumph, triumph over, trounce, trouncing, undermine, undo, undoing, unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, upset, uselessness, vanquish, vanquishment, warming, whip, win, worst, KO, Waterloo, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, baffle, bafflement, balk, balking, bankruptcy, bar, bear down, bear the palm, beat, beat all hollow, beat down, beat hollow, beating, best, betrayed hope, bilk, blast, blasted expectation, blighted hope, block, blow, brave, bring down, buffet, cast down, challenge, check, checkmate, circumvent, cleaning, cleanup, clobber, clobbering, comedown, confound, confounding, confront, confute, conquer, conquest, contradict, contravene, controvert, cook, counter, counteract, countermand, counterwork, cross, cruel disappointment, crush, dash, dashed hope, debacle, defeasance, defeat expectation, defy, demolish, deny, destroy, disappoint, disappointment, discomfit, discomfiture, disconcert, disconcertion, discountenance, dish, disillusion, disillusionment, dismiss, dispose of, disrupt, dissatisfaction, dissatisfy, do for, do in, downcast, downthrow, drub, drubbing, dusting, elude, end, failure, fallen countenance, fiasco, finish, fix, fizzle, floor, flummox, foil, foiling, forlorn hope, frustrate, frustration, futility, hide, hinder, hope deferred, hors de combat, ill success, impede, knock out, knock the chocks, lambaste, lambasting, lather, let down,

Etymology
from desfait:, from the verb desfaire:  des + faciō (to unmake).

Verb

 * Arabic: غلب
 * Bulgarian: разбивам,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 打敗, 打败
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:, , niederringen
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:


 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: uzvarēt, sakaut, uzveikt
 * Lithuanian: nugalėti, įveikti, sukauti
 * Norwegian: overvinne, beseire
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: побеждать ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: ఓడించు (ODinchu)
 * Turkish:


 * Bulgarian: разрушавам,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: schlagen; zerschlagen; schleifen (structures, buildings, etc.); ruinieren (economically only)


 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Russian: разрушать ,
 * Swedish: ödelägga, förstöra, tillintetgöra, ruinera

Noun

 * Arabic: (indiħār),  (inkisār) ,  هزيمة
 * Armenian: պարտություն (partut'yun)
 * Bulgarian:, унищожение
 * Chinese: 败仗 (bàizhàng)
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: תבוסה (tvusa) (act of being defeated)
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Latin:


 * Norwegian: nederlag
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: nederlag, förlust
 * Telugu: ఓటు (OTu), ఓటమి (OTami)
 * Thai: (kwaam bpraachai)
 * Turkish: yenilgi