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defeat 音标拼音: [dɪf'it] vt. 击败,战胜;使失败,挫折
n. 击败,战胜;失败 击败,战胜;使失败,挫折击败,战胜;失败 defeat n 1: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking" [synonym: {defeat}, {licking}] [ant: {triumph}, {victory}] 2: the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals [synonym: {frustration}, {defeat}] v 1: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" [synonym: {get the better of}, {overcome}, {defeat}] 2: thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal" [synonym: {kill}, {shoot down}, {defeat}, {vote down}, {vote out}] Defeat \De*feat"\, n. [Cf. F. d['e]faite, fr. d['e]faire. See {Defeat}, v.] 1. An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. [1913 Webster] 3. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to {victory}. [1913 Webster] Defeat \De*feat"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Defeated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Defeating}.] [From F. d['e]fait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe d['e]faire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis- facere to do. See {Feat}, {Fact}, and cf. {Disfashion}.] 1. To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] His unkindness may defeat my life. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate. [1913 Webster] He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes. --Tillotson. [1913 Webster] The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession. --Hallam. [1913 Webster] In one instance he defeated his own purpose. --A. W. Ward. [1913 Webster] 3. To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow. [1913 Webster] 4. To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault. [1913 Webster] Sharp reasons to defeat the law. --Shak. Syn: To baffle; disappoint; frustrate. [1913 Webster] 212 Moby Thesaurus words for "defeat": 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, 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
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