defeatverb詞源 1/dɪˈfiːt/

• 1

  To overcome in battle or contest.

  • Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  • The Japanese defeated the Ming general Tsu Chʻeng-hsün 祖承訓 at Pʻing jang 平壤 in 1592, the first year of Bunroku 文祿 of Japan, and the fighting continued for some years; but at Hideyoshi's death the Japanese troops left Korea.
• 2

  To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

  • He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
  • In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
• 3

  To nullify

  • The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.
• 4

  To prevent (something) from being achieved.

  • The last active L.Y.R. 0-6-0ST (apart from works shunters), No. 51408, has been moved from Bolton to Agecroft for use in New Bailey Yard, Salford, where a sharp 1 in 27 curve is said to have defeated all attempts so far to employ diesel shunters; an ex-L.Y.R. 0-4-0ST also works here.

defeatnoun詞源 2/dɪˈfiːt/

• 1

  The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

  • Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
  • Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.
• 2

  The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.

  • The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
• 3

  Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.

  • ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
  • She could see no justice in being forced into a position that promised to end in further humiliation and defeat of her hopes.
• 4

  obsoleteDestruction, ruin.

  • and made defeat of her virginity