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Definition: Defeat |
DefeatNoun1. An unsuccessful ending. 2. The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. Verb1. Win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity". 2. Thwart the passage of; "kill a motion". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "defeat" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Literature | Defeat "What though the field be lost? all is not lost." (Milton: Paradise Lost, i, line 105-6.) "All is lost but honour" (Tout est perdu, madame, fors l'honneur) is what François I. is said to have written to his mother, after the Battle of Pavia in 1525. Defeat There is a somewhat strange connection between de-feat and de-feature. Defeat is the French de-fait, un-made or un-done, Latin, de-factus (defectus, our "defect"); and feature is the Norman faiture, Latin factura, the make-up, frame, or form. Hence old writers have used the word "defeat" to mean disfigure or spoil the form. "Defeat thy favour [face] with an usurped beard." -Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Politics & International Affaires | The government was defeated in Parliament. Source: European Union. (references) |
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zh-tw:甲午戰爭Japan and China fought the first Sino-Japanese War during 1894 and 1895, primarily over control of Korea. To distinguish from the second Sino-Japanese War, this war is called "Jiawu War" (甲午戰爭) in Chinese because it occurred in the Chinese year by that name.
Korea (under the Joseon Dynasty) had traditionally been a tributary state to China. In 1875 the Qing Dynasty of China had allowed Japan to recognise Korea as an independent state. However China continued to try to assert influence over Korea, and public opinion in Korea split, with conservatives wanting to retain a close relationship with China while reformists wanted Korea to modernize and to have a closer relationship with Japan.
Following the assassination of a pro-Japanese reformist in 1894, a Korean religious sect, the Tonghak, began the Tonghak Peasant Revolution. The Korean government requested from China help in suppressing it.
However, when China did contribute assistance, the Japanese government sent an expedition in support of the reformists, and had seized the royal palace in Seoul by June 8, 1894. War between Japan and China was officially declared on August 1, 1894, though some naval fighting had already taken place.
The more modern Japanese army defeated the Chinese in a series of battles around Seoul and Pyongyang, forcing them north, and by November 21 the Japanese had taken Port Arthur (now known as Lushun).
The Japanese navy mauled China's northern fleet off the mouth of the Yalu River at the Battle of Yalu on September 17, 1894. The Chinese fleet lost 8 out of 12 warships, retreated behind the fortifications of the Weihaiwei naval base, and was then caught by a surprise Japanese land attack across the Liaodong Peninsula, which shattered the ships in harbour with shelling from the landward side. After Weihaiwei's fall on February 2 and an easing in harsh winter conditions, Japanese troops pressed their advance into Manchuria.
Faced with these repeated defeats China signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki in April 1895.
The defeat of China at the hands of Japan highlighted the failure of the Chinese army to modernize adequately, and resulted in increased calls within China for accelerated modernization and reform.
See also: Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
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In Greek mythology, Titanomachy was the war between the Titans, fighting from Mt. Othrys and Olympians. It is also known as the Battle of Titans or Titan War. The war was foretold to Cronus by Gaia and Uranus because Cronus had refused to restore justice after his father was dethroned.
The Titans were led by Cronus and included: Oceanus, Coeus, Crius, Hyperion, Iapetus, Thia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, Tethys, Prometheus, Epimetheus, Atlas, Menoetius. The Olympians were led by Zeus and included: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, the Hecatonchires, the Gigantes and the Cyclopes.
Having won victory after ten years of war, the Olympians divided the spoils between themselves, granting dominion of the sky to Zeus, the sea to Poseidon, and the Underworld to Hades. They then shut the defeated Titans within Tartarus. However, since during the war the female titans (the titanesses: Thia, Rhea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Phoebe, and Tethys) remained neutral, they were not punished by Zeus. The Hecatonchires remained guard over them until, in time, Zeus set all but Atlas free.
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Synonyms: DefeatSynonyms: frustration (n), licking (n), kill (v), overcome (v), vote down (v), vote out (v). (additional references) |
| Antonym: victory (n). (additional references) |
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Confutation | Verb: confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat; demolish, break; (destroy); overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence; clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip. |
Disappointment | Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish). |
Failure | Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate. |
Be all over with, be all up with; explode; dash one's hopes; (disappoint); defeat the purpose; sow the wind and reap the whirlwind, jump out of the frying pan into the fire, go from the frying pan into the fire. | |
Hindrance | Thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze, feeze; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat; spike guns; (render useless); spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple; (injure); put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten; (dissuade); discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck. |
Success | Defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow, overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit, outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst; put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of court. |
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Crosswords: Defeat |
| Specialty definitions using "defeat": Academy, Achan, Advertisement, Amateur ♦ Beheading ♦ Cannon, Chimham, Coffin, Concurrent Euclid, Corinthian War, counter-insurgency, crack root ♦ Fifteen decisive Battles ♦ GOLIATH, Gramophone ♦ Haggard, Humidity ♦ Jephthah ♦ Knife ♦ Lapithæ, legislative advocate, Lion, Logomachy ♦ Madstone, Misrephoth-maim ♦ Needfire ♦ Sheba, Snow ♦ Voucher ♦ Weasel, Weaving, Wolf, WORMS. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "defeat": Trophy. (references) |
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Screenplays | Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose (Rebecca; writing credit: Daphne Du Maurier; Philip MacDonald) A single grain of rice can tip the scale; one man may be the differance between victory and defeat. (Mulan; writing credit: Robert D. San Souci; Rita Hsiao) There is no defeat in death, Master Bruce (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I am not Goku nor Vegeta, I am the instrument of your defeat. (Dragon Ball Z; writing credit: Chris Forbis; Eric Johnson) | |
Lyrics | Won't defeat me ("Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head"; performing artist: B.J. Thomas) It will reach defeat (Why Do Fools Fall In Love; performing artist: Diana Ross) For I know it will reach defeat! ("Why Do Fools Fall in Love"; performing artist: Frankie Lymon & Teenagers) You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. (The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down; performing artist: Joan Baez) While small coffins are lined up sadly, now united in defeat (Both Sides Of The Story; performing artist: Phil Collins) | |
Clever | Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it. (references; author: unknown) To accomplish something, the first person you have to defeat is yourself. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Feet's Defeat (1968) How the Sacred Fire Heroic Winds Defeat the Fire Lotus Array (1967) The Defeat of the City (1917) | |
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 | Depression: Define it. Defeat it. : As A Friend, You Can Help. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Hitler running toward total defeat by looking at rainbow of negotiated peace. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Old woman representing "defeat" spoons off "Hohenzollern dynasty" from cauldron of "Germany". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Russia all out to defeat Germany in 1942--radioed pictures. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Wayne's defeat of the Indians / Lossing-Barritt. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Defeat of the Army of Genl. Pope at Manassas on the Old Bull run battle[gr]ound. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Glimpse of the defeat at Ellisons Mill June 26th. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Women at war (Mrs. Smuda). "Dear Mom...." A letter from her youngest son, far away at camp, highlights the day for war worker Eva Smuda. Like son, like mother, they're both giving every bit of energy to help Uncle Sam defeat the Axis. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | A Japanese casuality in the capture of Buna. On the beach at Buna Mission, last point of Japanese resistance in the Papuan section of New Guinea, the body of a slain Japanese soldiers gives mute evidence of the defeat of the enemy. The Japanese suffered h. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Defeat of the British army [...] Défaite de l'armée Anglaise [...] / / dessiné par Hthe. Laclotte ; gravé par P.L. Debucourt. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Sacré-Coeur" by Richard Varga Commentary: "Sacré-Coeur This basilica was built after the defeat of the 1870 Franco-ptussian war, its construction was a national choice. There is a magnificent panoramic wiew of paris." |
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Edwin Markham | Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. |
Ernest Hemingway | But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | In ourselves are triumph and defeat. |
Henry Ward Beecher | Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. |
Lydia M. Child | A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. |
President John F. Kennedy | There's an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is an orphan. |
Thomas Jefferson | Victory and defeat are each of the same price. |
Thomas Jefferson Green. | Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat -- the Alamo had none. |
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Three Voices | Carroll, Lewis | She felt that her defeat was plain, Yet madly strove with might and main To get the upper hand again |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Defeat had magnified the vanquished |
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Health | As part of its efforts to defeat Parkinson’s disease, the NINDS supports 11 Parkinson’s Disease Research Centers of Excellence throughout the country. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Yemen | In Sana'a in May, there was an "oratorical festival" at the Palestinian Embassy to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of "al-Nakbah," the 1948 Palestinian defeat. (references) |
Economic History | Republic of Congo | Sassou-Nguesso conceded defeat and Congo's new president, Prof. (references) |
Bolivia | Bolivia's defeat by Paraguay in the Chaco War (1932-35) marked a turning point. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | Military intervention by Angola, Chad, Namibia, and Zimbabwe resulted in the defeat of an RCD drive on Kinshasa in August 1998, but rebel forces advanced elsewhere. (references) |
Philippines | While acknowledging that respect for human rights has improved under current President Macapagal-Arroyo, many NGO's criticized the Government for allegedly overzealous efforts to defeat the terrorist ASG. (references) | |
Political Economy | ITALY | Up to December 31, 1998, price stability was the primary objective of monetary policy; the Bank of Italy carried out a restrictive monetary policy in an effort to defeat Italy's long-term inflation problem. (references) |
Political Rights | Yugoslavia | Kostunica declared himself President of Yugoslavia that night and 2 days later Milosevic conceded electoral defeat. (references) |
Taiwan | The KMT remained the largest political party, with over 950,000 members reaffirming their membership in a registration drive following the 2000 electoral defeat. (references) | |
Russia | Challengers were able to defeat incumbents in many of the races for regional executive positions, and losing candidates generally accepted the legitimacy of the voting results. (references) | |
Trade | Eq. Guinea | A functioning and stable CEMAC customs code may ultimately come to represent the norm, and facilitate shipments within Central Africa to defeat the extremely slow bureaucratic procedures that must be negotiated currently for intra-zone trade. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too. |
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Dick Van Dyke | You know, I didn't have to defeat it. It slowly, but slowly just faded away. Suddenly it wasn't doing anything for me. It make me a little dizzy and a little sick and my taste for it and it just went away. |
Rush Limbaugh | The only way to win peace is to defeat your enemies. |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In my lifetime--in depression and in war--they have awaited our defeat. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I could blame the defeat which would be the result of my action on him and come out as the peacemaker. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Because the security of Europe and the integrity of NATO remain the cornerstone of American defense policy, I have initiated a special, long-term program to ensure the capacity of the Alliance to deter or defeat aggression in Europe. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | If our crusade against drugs succeeds with our children, we will defeat that scourge all over the country. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Every time the special interests were powerful enough to defeat them. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Afghanistan proved that expensive precision weapons defeat the enemy and spare innocent lives, and we need more of them. |
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| "Defeat" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 82.74% of the time. "Defeat" is used about 3,097 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 82.74% | 2,562 | 3,555 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 15.35% | 475 | 12,481 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.74% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.13% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3,097 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "defeat": bunker defeat munition ♦ defeat utterly ♦ inflict a defeat ♦ moral defeat ♦ submit to defeat ♦ suffer a crushing defeat ♦ suffer a defeat ♦ they suffered bad defeat. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "defeat": hard-to-defeat. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "defeat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | verslaan (win over). (various references) | |
Albanian | disfatë (bad luck, baffle, defection, discomfiture, licking, loss, overturn, reverse, rout), shuaje e shpresave, shuaj shpresat, shkatërroj (bash up, blow away, break to pieces, bust up, cast down, consume, crock, dash, decimate, demolish, depauperate, depredate, destroy, do for, do in, eat, erode, explode, flatten, gut, kill, level, rase, ravage, raze, rout, ruin, shake down, shatter, sink, smash, smite, subvert, take away, tear to pieces, throw down, trample down, unbuild, vandalize, wreck, zap), rrëzoj (blow, bring down, chop down, demolish, depolarise, depose, destroy, dethrone, disenthrone, dismount, disprove, down, drop, eradiate, fail, fell, floor, kill, knock out, overthrow, plough, plow, pull down, pull over, push down, push over, rase, raze, rebut, sink, spill, wreck), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, dissolution, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), prish planet (discomfit, disconcert), pësoj disfatë (discomfit), mundem (be able, may, militate, wrestle), humbje (blow, come down, damage, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), godit (bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, deal, hit, impinge, instigate, joggle, jostle, knock, pound, shock, shove, slam, smite, stab, strike, tap, thrash, thwack, whack), godas (affect, astonish smb., bash, beat, biff, buffet, bump, butt, clip, clout, conk, drop, hit, impinge, knock, pound, smite, stab, strike, whack), anuloj (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disannul, negate, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, set aside, void, withdraw), anulim (abolishment, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cassation, Defeasance, invalidation, nullification, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation). (various references) | |
Arabic | فسخ (abrogate, annul, annulment, countermand, invalidate, invalidation, negate, nullify, repeal, repudiation, rescind, rescission, revocation, revoke, void), فاز (achieve, attain, be successful, beat, gain, get, obtain, overcome, prevail, succeed, triumph over, win, win out), فشل (balk, be failed, be unable to do, be unsuccessful, come to nothing, cower, dud, fail, failure, fiasco, fizzle out, flop, frustration, go awry, go wrong, lose courage, lose ground, lose heart, make a hash of it, miscarry, miss, miss fire, miss the mark, torpedo, trip up, unsuccess, washout), كسر (breach, break, breakage, breaking, crash, crush, double, fold, fraction, fracture, fracturing, infringe, pleat, rout, shatter, shattering, smash, smashing, tuck, vanquish, violate), هزيمة (beating, debacle, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, overthrow, repulse, reverse, rout, thrashing, trimming, wall), هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, hold down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), قهر (beat, compulsion, conquer, crush, defeating, force, get the better of, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, subdual, subdue, subjugate, subjugation, tame, vanquish), غلب (overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, predominate, prevail, prostrate, subdue), تخييب, خيب (belie), إيقاع الهزيمة, إحباط (chill, frustration, mare's nest), أحبط (anticipate, balk, block, check, damp, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, foil, forestall, frustrate, nullify, ruin, scotch, scuttle, torpedo), أبطل (abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, avoid, call off, cancel, circumvent, counteract, countermand, extinguish, frustrate, nullify, override, quash, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, rule out, stultify, supersede, undo, upset, vacate, vitiate, void). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разстройвам (break, crack, derange, detune, disagree, disconcert, disjoint, disorder, disorganize, disrupt, distract, disturb, impair, put about, rupture, stultify, unnerve, unstring, unvoice, upset), вземам надмощие над, нанасям поражение на, анулиране (abatement, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, cassation, invalidation, nullification, recision, repeal, rescission, retraction, voidance, write off), проваляне (breakdown, crash, damnation, downfall, founder), провалям (circumvent, countermine, damn, kill, pip, shipwreck, vote down), поразявам (amaze, astound, attaint, destroy, dismay, flabbergast, impress, overwhelm, plague, smite, stare, strike down, wow), поражение (backdown, baffle, beating, failure, injury, knockout, lesion, overturn, repulse, reverse, smash, walloping, whipping), побеждавам (beat, conquer, down, fight down, foil, have, lace, lick, master, mop up, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overthrow, overturn, pip, polish off, prevail, scupper, thrash, triumph, trounce, vanquish, whip, whop, win, worst, zap), победа (battle, coup, victory, winning). (various references) | |
Chinese | 挫敗 (foil, thwart), 敗仗 (lost battle), 擊敗 (beat), 弊 (detriment, fraud, harm), 失败 (Abortive, defeatist, Fail, Failed, Failing, failure, Miscarried, miscarry, Miscarrying). (various references) | |
Czech | zdolat (conquer, cope, negotiate, overbear, overpower, surmount, vanquish), prohra (loss), porazit (bear down, beat, best, butcher, chop down, conquer, cut down, fell, hack down, hew, hew down, kill, knock down, overthrow, overturn, run down, smite, stick, strike down, stump, tumble, vanquish), porážka (beating, reverse, slaughter), přemoci (conquer, fight down, master, overbear, overcome, overmaster, overpower, overwhelm, prostrate, reduce, stifle, surmount, swallow, vanquish). (various references) | |
Danish | nederlag, besejre (win over). (various references) | |
Dutch | nederlaag. (various references) | |
Esperanto | venki (win over), malvenko. (various references) | |
Faeroese | vinna (earn, gain, win, win over), tap, sigra (win over), ósigur. (various references) | |
Farsi | مغلوب ساختن (Overcome, Vanquish), هزیمت , شکست دادن (Drub, Floor, Outdo, Skunk, Smash, Smite, Trounce, Vanquish, Worst). (various references) | |
Finnish | voittaa (be superior to, beat, derive profit, earn, exceed, gain, gain conquer, get the better of, overcome, profit, surpass, win, win over), tappio (loss), häviö (destruction, downfall, fall, loss, ruin). (various references) | |
French | vaincre. (various references) | |
Frisian | nederlaach. (various references) | |
German | Niederlage (beating, branch office, depot, discomfiture, drubbing, failure, licking, reverse, warehouse), besiegen (beat, conquer, discomfit, down, knock out, overcome, overthrow, put down, repress, subdue, thrash, to conquer, to defeat, to discomfit, vanquish, win over). (various references) | |
Greek | ήττα (discomfiture, loss, reverse, rout, vanquishment). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | humbje. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מכה (blow, bump, cut, hit, knock, plague, smash, striking, stroke, swat), למגר (cast down, knife, knock out, overthrow, overturn, rout), להפר (annul, break, cancel, contravene, foil, violate, void), להכות (affict, beat, flap, hit, hurt, kill, knock, plaque, smite, strike, stroke, swipe, wound), להביס (beat, checkmate, floor, skunk, thrash), לנגוף (afflict with plague, hurt, smite, strike), לנצח (always, conquer, eternally, everlastingly, evermore, for ever, forever, lick, overcome, overpower, perpetually, triumph, vanquish, win), תבוסה (beating, checkmate, collapse, downfall, drubbing, licking, overthrow, rout, setback, thrashing), קטב (destruction, pestilence, plaque), נפילה (collapse, degradation, downfall, fall, falling, pitch, slip, spilling, tumble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vereség (beating, licking, overthrow, thrashing, whipping). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengalahan (admission, concession, inflicted), menggulung (come in rolls, convolve, scroll, waves, wreathe), memenangi, cundang. (various references) | |
Italian | disfatta (overthrow, rout), vincere (beat, carry, carry off, come out on top, conquer, control oneself, discomfit, overcome, overpower, score, vanquish, win), sconfitta (beating, discomfiture, elimination, repulse, walloping). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 打倒 (knockdown, overthrow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おくれ (backwardness, delay, failure, lag), ひけ (closing price, diffidence, leave), まけ (losing, loss), うちやぶる (crush, to hit), ふかく (angle of dip, blunder, depression, failure, indiscretion, mistake, negligence), らい (for, next, since), はいざん (abandoned mine, decline, down-and-out, ruin), はいぐん (lost battle), はいぼう, はいぼく, はいせん (apex of a lung, assignment of vessels, basin for winecups, discontinued line, losing a war, pulmonary apex, scrapped vessel, sink, wiring), だは (abolish, break down), だとう (appropriate, knockdown, overthrow, proper, right, valid). (various references) | |
Korean | 패배. (various references) | |
Manx | taartys (overthrow, retention), taart (rout, thirst), cur fo haart (break), castey (appease, beat back, censor, check, choke back, contain, counter, cure, end, freeze, freeze as loan, hitch, inhibit, preclude, staunch, stave off, suppress, throwing stones). (various references) | |
Norwegian | nederlag. (various references) | |
Papiamen | derotá (win over), derota, vense (win over). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | efeatday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | derrota (balk, discomfiture, licking, loss, overthrow, rout, thrashing, upset), vencer (bear down, clear away, lick, outdo, outrival, overcome, overmatch, overpass, overpower, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph, vanquish, whop, win). (various references) | |
Romanian | învinge (beat, best, break through, circumvent, conquer, discomfit, dispose, drub, flog, floor, get the better of, knock, master, overcome, overmaster, overpower, pull through, reason down, surmount, thrash, vanquish, whip, win, win over, worst). (various references) | |
Russian | расстройство (disarrangement, disorder, disorganization, disturbance, malady, upset, upsets), расстраивать (baffle, blow up, detune, disarrange, discomfit, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, distune, disturb, faze, frustrate, shatter, thwart, unnerve, unsettle, untune, upset), разгром (debacle, drubbing, rout, shambles, smash, walloping), разбивать (break up, demolish, drub, scatter, shatter, smashes, split up, trounce), отменять (abolish, abrogate, annul, back out, call off, cancel, disaffirm, disannul, disestablish, override, overrule, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, retract, revoke, revoked, revoking, undid, undone), наносить поражение, аннулирование (abatement, annulment, cancellation, defeasance, invalidation, nullification, nullity, repeal, rescission, undoing, write off, writeoff), поражение (beating, checkmate, dazzle, discomfiture, drubbing, overturn, whipping), побеждать поражение, побеждать (conquer, lick, outfight, overpower, overthrow, score off, vanquish). (various references) | |
Scottish | ruaig (a flight, a pursuit). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | savladati (cope, fight down, master, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, scale, surmount, vanquish), poraziti (dismay, wipe the floor with), poraz (debacle, drubbing, reverse, rout, trimming), poništiti (abolish, annul, cancel, countermand, foreclose, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, unmake, void), nadigrati (outperform, outplay), anulirati (annul, disannul). (various references) | |
Spanish | derrota (beating, licking, reverse, rout), vencer (bear down, beat, beat down, best, break, break down, carry, conquer, discomfit, expire, fall due on, fall in, get over, get the best of, get the better of, master, outface, overcome, overpower, tear, win). (various references) | |
Swedish | nederlag (depot, discomfiture, licking, overthrow), besegra (beat, best, checkmate, conquer, fight down, flog, hammer, knock out, lick, nobble, overcome, overwhelm, pip, vanquish, win over, worst). (various references) | |
Turkish | devirmek (capsize, chop down, crumple, cut down, down, give smth. a tip, knock, knock back, knock down, knock over, overset, overthrow, overturn, quaff off, revolutionize, shift, strike down, subvert, take down, tilt, tip, topple, topple over, upset), hayal kırıklığı (chagrin, comedown, disappointment, disillusion, disillusionment, failure, frost, letdown, non event, nonevent, sell, take in), aleyhte oy (con, negative vote, no), altetmek (circumvent, win over), başarısızlık (abortion, balk, bankruptcy, baulk, bomb, bust, collapse, cropper, dud, failure, fizzle, flivver, frost, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, miscarriage, reverse, setback, throwback, unsuccess, washout), boşa çıkarmak (baffle, blight, cancel, disappoint, fail, frustrate, invalidate, prick the bubble, puncture, shoot down), bozgun (beating, cropper, debacle, discomfiture, fiasco, rout, stampede, upset), aşmak (be in excess of, bestride, clear, exceed, go beyond, negotiate, outgo, outreach, overbrim, overlap, overrun, overstep, pass, pass beyond, pass over, stride, surmount, surpass, top, transcend, transgress), hüsran (chagrin, disappointment, frustration), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, dissolution, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, void, withdrawal), iptal ettirmek, mağlubiyet, red (denial, disallowance, disavowal, nay, negation, negative, no, refusal, refutation, rejection, repudiation, veto), ret (denial, disallowance, disavowal, nay, negation, negative, no, rebuff, refusal, refutation, rejection, repudiation, veto), yenilgi (bankruptcy, beating, checkmate, discomfiture, drubbing, licking, reverse, thrashing, trimming), engellemek (balk, bar, baulk, block, circumvent, clamp the lid on smth., clog, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, cross, cumber, dam, dam up, embarrass, encumber, fetter, foil, gum up, hamper, hedge, hedge about, hedge around, hinder, hobble, impede, inhibit, keep down, keep from, obstruct, preclude, prevent from, put the lid on smth., resist, restrain, save, shut out, snag, stem, stymie, surety, trammel). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яeсmek (be victorious, conquer). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | розгром (checkmate, debacle, frustration, smash, walloping), розбивати (batter, break, crack, demolish, destroy, outbreak, split, stave in), крах (bankruptcy, burst up, collapse, come down, crash, destruction, disruption, frustration, ruin, ruination, wreckage), відміняти (abate, abolish, abrogate, avoid, bar, negative, nullify, rescind, revoke, vacate), знишувати, завдавати поразки, анулювати (abate, abrogate, annul, avoid, bar, cancel, disannul, elide, null, nullify, overrule, quash, repeal, rescind, undo, wash out, withdraw), поразка (balk, beating, discomfiture, drubbing, knockout, licking, reverse, whipping, whopping). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thủ tiêu (abatement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, avoidance, defeasance, disannulment, liquidation, rescission). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | i. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | detrimentum, dis-, evinco, fundo, pelle, pellebar, pelles, pelli, pellis, propellentibus, pulso, vicerant, vicerit, vicerunt, vici, vicissent, vicisti, vicistis, vicit, victa, victi, victorum, victos, victum, victus, vincas, vince, vincebat, vincebatis, vincens, vincenti, vincere, vincerent, vinceret, vincet, vincetur, vinci, vincimini, vincit, vincitur. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Samuel Chapter 15, Verse 34 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ean eiV thn polin epistreyhV kai ereiV tw abessalwm dielhluqasin oi adelfoi sou kai o basileuV katopisqen mou dielhluqen o pathr sou kai nun paiV sou eimi basileu eason me zhsai paiV tou patroV sou hmhn tote kai artiwV kai nun egw douloV soV kai diaskedaseiV moi thn boulhn acitofel |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si autem in civitatem revertaris et dixeris Absalom servus tuus sum rex sicut fui servus patris tui sic ero servus tuus dissipabis consilium Ahitofel |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Forsothe if thou turnest ayen into the citee, and seist to Absolon, Thi seruaunt I am, kyng, suffre me to lyue; as I was the seruaunt of thi fadre, so I shal be thi seruaunt; thou shalt scatyr the counseyl of Achitophel. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | But if thou shalt return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | But if you go back to the town and say to Absalom, I will be your servant, O king; as in the past I have been your father's servant, so now I will be yours: then you will be able to keep Ahithophel's designs against me from being put into effect. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | 2 Samuel Chapter 15, Verse 34 |
| Cebuano | Apan kong ikaw mobalik ngadto sa ciudad, ug moingon kang Absalom. Ako maimong alagad, oh hari; ingon nga ako nahimong alagad sa imong amahan sa panahon nga miagi, ingon man karon ako maimong alagad; nan ikaw modaug alang kanako sa tambag ni Achitophel. |
| Croatian | Ali ako se vratiš u grad i kažeš Abšalomu: 'Bit æu tvoj sluga, gospodaru kralju; prije sam služio tvome ocu, a sada æu služiti tebi', moæi æeš tada okretati Ahitofelove savjete u moju korist. |
| Danish | men vender du tilbage til Byen og siger til Absalon: Jeg vil være din Træl, Konge; din Faders Træl var jeg fordum, men nu vil jeg være din Træl! så kan du gøre mig Akitofels Råd til Skamme. |
| Dutch | Maar zo gij weder in de stad gaat, en tot Absalom zegt: Uw knecht, ik zal des konings zijn; ik ben wel uws vaders knecht van te voren geweest, maar nu zal ik uw knecht zijn; zo zoudt gij mij den raad van Achitofel te niet maken. |
| Finnish | Mutta jos palaat kaupunkiin ja sanot Absalomille: `Minä tahdon olla sinun palvelijasi, kuningas. Minä olen ennen ollut sinun isäsi palvelija, mutta nyt tahdon olla sinun palvelijasi`, niin voit olla minulle avuksi tekemällä Ahitofelin neuvon tyhjäksi. |
| French | Et, au contraire, tu anéantiras en ma faveur les conseils d`Achitophel, si tu retournes à la ville, et que tu dises à Absalom: O roi, je serai ton serviteur; je fus autrefois le serviteur de ton père, mais je suis maintenant ton serviteur. |
| German | Wenn du aber wieder in die Stadt gingest und sprächest zu Absalom: Ich bin dein Knecht, ich will des Königs sein; der ich deines Vaters Knecht war zu der Zeit, will nun dein Knecht sein: So würdest du mir zugut den Ratschlag Ahithophels zunichte machen. |
| Haitian Creole | Men, ou ka ede m' anpil si ou tounen lavil Jerizalèm. W'a di Absalon ou pral sèvi l' koulye a menm jan ou te sèvi papa l' nan tan lontan. Lè sa a, w'a ede m' pare tout move kou Achitofèl va gen lide pote m'. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Tetapi engkau dapat menolongku, jika engkau kembali ke kota dan berkata kepada Absalom, bahwa sekarang engkau hendak melayani dia dengan setia, seperti telah kaulayani ayahnya dahulu. Dengan cara begitu engkau dapat menggagalkan segala nasihat Ahitofel. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Tetapi jikalau engkau balik ke dalam negeri serta katamu kepada Absalom: Bahwa patik menjadi hamba tuanku; sesungguhnya dahulu patik hamba paduka ayahanda, tetapi sekarang patik menjadi hamba tuanku! dengan demikian peri engkau boleh membatalkan bagiku bicara si Akhitofel itu. |
| Maori | Engari ki te hoki koe ki te pa, a ka mea ki a Apoharama, Hei pononga ahau mau, e te kingi, he pononga ahau na tou papa i mua, inaianei hei pononga ahau mau: penei mau e whakataka te whakaaro o Ahitopere moku. |
| Norwegian | men dersom du vender tilbake til byen og sier til Absalom: Jeg vil være din tjener, konge! Jeg har før vært din fars tjener, men nu vil jeg være din tjener - så vil du gjøre Akitofels råd til intet for mig. |
| Rumanian | Dimpotrivq, vei nimici pentru mine sfaturile lui Ahitofel, dacq te vei kntoarce kn cetate, wi vei zice lui Absalom: ,Kmpqrate, eu voi fi robul tqu; odinioarq am fost robul tatqlui tqu, dar acum sknt robul tqu.` |
| Russian | ОП ЕУМЙ ЧПЪЧТБФЙЫШУС Ч ЗПТПД Й УЛБЦЕЫШ бЧЕУУБМПНХ: `ГБТШ, С ТБВ ФЧПК; ДПУЕМЕ С ВЩМ ТБВПН ПФГБ ФЧПЕЗП, Б ФЕРЕТШ С--ФЧПК ТБВ`: ФП ФЩ ТБУУФТПЙЫШ ДМС НЕОС УПЧЕФ бИЙФПЖЕМБ. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "defeat": defeated, defeater, defeaters, defeating, defeatism, defeatisms, defeatist, defeatists, defeats, defeature, defeatures. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "defeat": redefeat. (additional references) | |
Words containing "defeat": redefeated, redefeating, redefeats, undefeated. (additional references) | |
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"Defeat" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deafeat, debeat, debebat, deceat, deeah, Defaite, defat, defaut, defe, defea, defeate, defedate, defeet, defenate, defent, defeo, defeod, d'effet, Deffett, defial, defiat, defit, defite, defoa, Deftedar, diffent, dreweatt, Dubedat, Duffett, Edgealt, efeat, effeat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "defeat" (pronounced dufē"t) |
| 3 | -f ē" t | effete, feat, feet. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-t" | |
-1 letter: defat, fated, feted. | |
-2 letters: daft, date, deaf, deet, deft, fade, fate, feat, feed, feet, feta, fete, teed. | |
-3 letters: aft, ate, dee, eat, eft, eta, fad, fat, fed, fee, fet, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, at, de, ed, ef, et, fa, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-t" | |
+1 letter: deafest, defeats, deflate, draftee, faceted, feasted. | |
+2 letters: affected, defatted, defeated, defeater, defecate, deflated, deflater, deflates, draftees, facetted, faltered, fastened, fathered, fattened, featured, federate, fellated, foredate, foveated, raftered, redefeat, reflated, safetied. | |
+3 letters: acetified, afterdeck, beatified, defalcate, defaulted, defaulter, defeaters, defeating, defeatism, defeatist, defeature, defecated, defecates, defendant, deflaters, defoliate, delftware, engrafted, fatheaded, feathered, fecundate, federated, federates, flattened, flattered, foredated, foredates, leafleted, redefeats, redrafted, refloated, refracted, regrafted, restaffed. | |
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