Defeat
noun
A situation when you lose a game, battle, or election.
She took her defeat in the election gracefully
Often appears as...
- suffer a defeat
- admit defeat
verb
To win against someone in a game, battle, or other competition.
Our basketball team defeated the visiting team easily
Often appears as...
- defeat the enemy
- defeat an opponent
verb
To stop something from achieving its goal or to make it ineffective.
The importance of this issue can't be defeated by simple politics
Often appears as...
- defeat a purpose
- defeat a plan
noun
A situation when you lose a game, battle, or election.
She took her defeat in the election gracefully
Often appears as...
- suffer a defeat
- admit defeat
verb
To win against someone in a game, battle, or other competition.
Our basketball team defeated the visiting team easily
Often appears as...
- defeat the enemy
- defeat an opponent
verb
To stop something from achieving its goal or to make it ineffective.
The importance of this issue can't be defeated by simple politics
Often appears as...
- defeat a purpose
- defeat a plan
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Defeat in contests or elections often carries emotional disappointment for the person or team.
The team left the field in a mood of defeat after losing the championship.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Expression
In sports, 'defeat' is commonly used and easily understood internationally.
The world watched as the champion faced defeat for the first time.
Pro Tip 3/3Grace in Loss
'Defeat' can be acknowledged gracefully, showing sportsmanship or political professionalism.
Despite the defeat, she congratulated her opponent warmly.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Defeat in contests or elections often carries emotional disappointment for the person or team.
The team left the field in a mood of defeat after losing the championship.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Expression
In sports, 'defeat' is commonly used and easily understood internationally.
The world watched as the champion faced defeat for the first time.
Pro Tip 3/3Grace in Loss
'Defeat' can be acknowledged gracefully, showing sportsmanship or political professionalism.
Despite the defeat, she congratulated her opponent warmly.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Defeat in contests or elections often carries emotional disappointment for the person or team.
The team left the field in a mood of defeat after losing the championship.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Expression
In sports, 'defeat' is commonly used and easily understood internationally.
The world watched as the champion faced defeat for the first time.
Pro Tip 3/3Grace in Loss
'Defeat' can be acknowledged gracefully, showing sportsmanship or political professionalism.
Despite the defeat, she congratulated her opponent warmly.
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How playing sports...
I can improve myself through practice and achieve it eventually." That mindset is useful in all walks of life. And then there's learning through failure, one of the most transformative, long-term benefits of playing sports. The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic,
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How to practice...
Our mind is hard to change once we become convinced. So it might be very natural to feel demoralized and defeated after you fail. But you cannot allow yourself to become convinced you can't succeed. You have to fight feelings of helplessness. You have to gain control over the situation.
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Why is it so hard to...
some cancer cells can effectively switch on protective shields against whatever's attacking them by changing their gene expression. Malignant cancers are complex systems that constantly evolve and adapt. To defeat them, we need to find experimental systems that match their complexity,
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A digital reimagining of...
to figure out what he could and couldn't see. I think it helps explain his decision. Why? Because from his point of view, the federals were very weak. He was attacking at the logical place, but without full knowledge, he set his men out for a dreadful defeat.
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A host of heroes - April...
He travels across the sea with his band of warriors to help another king defeat a supernatural monster that has been terrorizing his kingdom. He defeats the monster and the monster's mother in an epic battle, and then goes back home and becomes king himself.
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Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and we thought our troubles were over we had filmed him and we had caught him but we reckoned without one thing unfortunately in the end bureaucracy defeated us and we weren't given a permit to export those dragons from indonesia so i'm afraid
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How stress affects your...
Both of these activities decrease your stress and increase the size of the hippocampus, thereby improving your memory. So don't feel defeated by the pressures of daily life. Get in control of your stress before it takes control of you.
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The great conspiracy...
The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars, during which Brutus, facing certain defeat, took his own life. Ironically, the ultimate result would be the opposite of what the conspirators had hoped to the end of the Republic
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Bottlenose Dolphin Gang...
way to defeat this kind of bully boy behavior when an alliance harasses a female with a baby she fights with all the fury a mother can muster protecting her child
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The impact of Simón...
the life of Bolivar is one of history's most dramatic canvases a colossal narrative full of disaster and adventure and victory and defeat driven
Video examples
How playing sports...
I can improve myself through practice and achieve it eventually." That mindset is useful in all walks of life. And then there's learning through failure, one of the most transformative, long-term benefits of playing sports. The experience of coming to terms with defeat can build the resilience and self-awareness necessary to manage academic,
Video examples
How to practice...
Our mind is hard to change once we become convinced. So it might be very natural to feel demoralized and defeated after you fail. But you cannot allow yourself to become convinced you can't succeed. You have to fight feelings of helplessness. You have to gain control over the situation.
Video examples
Why is it so hard to...
some cancer cells can effectively switch on protective shields against whatever's attacking them by changing their gene expression. Malignant cancers are complex systems that constantly evolve and adapt. To defeat them, we need to find experimental systems that match their complexity,
Video examples
A digital reimagining of...
to figure out what he could and couldn't see. I think it helps explain his decision. Why? Because from his point of view, the federals were very weak. He was attacking at the logical place, but without full knowledge, he set his men out for a dreadful defeat.
Video examples
A host of heroes - April...
He travels across the sea with his band of warriors to help another king defeat a supernatural monster that has been terrorizing his kingdom. He defeats the monster and the monster's mother in an epic battle, and then goes back home and becomes king himself.
Video examples
Zoo Quest For A Dragon...
and we thought our troubles were over we had filmed him and we had caught him but we reckoned without one thing unfortunately in the end bureaucracy defeated us and we weren't given a permit to export those dragons from indonesia so i'm afraid
Video examples
How stress affects your...
Both of these activities decrease your stress and increase the size of the hippocampus, thereby improving your memory. So don't feel defeated by the pressures of daily life. Get in control of your stress before it takes control of you.
Video examples
The great conspiracy...
The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars, during which Brutus, facing certain defeat, took his own life. Ironically, the ultimate result would be the opposite of what the conspirators had hoped to the end of the Republic
Video examples
Bottlenose Dolphin Gang...
way to defeat this kind of bully boy behavior when an alliance harasses a female with a baby she fights with all the fury a mother can muster protecting her child
Video examples
The impact of Simón...
the life of Bolivar is one of history's most dramatic canvases a colossal narrative full of disaster and adventure and victory and defeat driven
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Quote examples
Selena Gomez
American Actress
I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn't going to let them get to me.
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Sergio Ramos
Spanish Athlete
Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I'm not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.
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Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Joel Osteen
American Clergyman
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
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Barack Obama
American President
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Marcus Garvey
Jamaican Publisher
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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Richard M. Nixon
American President
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
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Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Pope John Paul II
Polish Saint
War is a defeat for humanity.
Quote examples
Selena Gomez
American Actress
I would try to promote something that I loved, and the entire interview would be about my personal life. I would leave a room feeling defeated, feeling embarrassed, but I would always make sure to put that smile on my face because I wasn't going to let them get to me.
Quote examples
Sergio Ramos
Spanish Athlete
Music is a way of expressing my mood, and it definitely helps to motivate me before a game. It also helps me move on from past defeats or keeps my mind busy when I'm not playing, so music is definitely something that follows me every step of every day.
Quote examples
Norman Vincent Peale
American Clergyman
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Quote examples
Joel Osteen
American Clergyman
I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
Quote examples
Barack Obama
American President
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
Quote examples
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican Publisher
If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Quote examples
Richard M. Nixon
American President
You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.
Quote examples
Rainer Maria Rilke
German Poet
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Quote examples
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Quote examples
Pope John Paul II
Polish Saint
War is a defeat for humanity.
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