- (v.t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- (v.t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
- (v.t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
- (v.t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
- (v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
- (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
- (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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