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defeatnoun failure to win a contestsore losers still griping about their defeat in the basketball game earlier that week beating, drubbing, licking, loss, lump, overthrow, plastering, rout, shellacking, trimming, trouncing, whipping collapse, debacle(also débâcle), failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, nonsuccess, setback, upsetlurch, shutout, washout, whitewash success, triumph, victory, win accomplishment, achievementblowout, cakewalk, landslide, romp, runaway, sweep, walkaway, walkover a falling short of one's goalstruly disheartened by the defeat of his plans to revitalize downtown collapse, crash, cropper, failure, fizzle, nonachievement, nonsuccess futility, uselessnessineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness, inefficaciousness, inefficacydeficiency, inadequacy, inadequateness, insufficiencydisappointment, letdown, setback accomplishment, achievement, success victory, win to achieve a victory overthey defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs beat, best, conquer, dispatch, do down(British), get, get around, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), skunk, stop, subdue, surmount, take, trim, triumph (over), upend, win (against), worst sweepedge (out), nose out, pip(British)annihilate, blow away, blow out, bomb, break, bury, clobber, cream, crush, drub, finish, flatten, overwhelm, rout, shellac, skin, slaughter, smoke(slang), snow under, thrash, trounce, upset, wallop, wax(slang), whipcap, excel, flourish, score, succeedknock off, knock over, overpower, overthrow, subjugate, unseat, vanquishace (out), better, eclipse, exceed, excel, outdistance, outdo, outfight, outshine, outstrip, overtop, surpass, top, transcend get the better of, knock for a loop lose (to) fall, give up, go down, go undercollapse, fail, flop, flunk, fold, wash out v.conquer, vanquish, defeat, subdue, reduce, overcome, overthrow mean to get the better of by force or strategy.conquer implies gaining mastery of.Caesar conquered Gaul vanquish implies a complete overpowering.vanquished the enemy and ended the war defeat does not imply the finality or completeness of vanquish which it otherwise equals.the Confederates defeated the Union forces at Manassas subdue implies a defeating and suppression.subdued the native tribes after years of fighting reduce implies a forcing to capitulate or surrender.the city was reduced after a month-long siege overcome suggests getting the better of with difficulty or after hard struggle.overcame a host of bureaucratic roadblocks overthrow stresses the bringing down or destruction of existing power.violently overthrew the old regime in the 15th century |