Etymology Edit from Old French desfait desfaire Latin des faciō
Pronunciation Edit defeat (third-person singular simple present defeats present participle defeating simple past and past participle defeated
( transitive ) To overcome in battle or contest .
Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. ( transitive ) To nullify ; to reduce , to nothing , the strength of.
Tillotson
He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
Hallam
The escheators [ …] defeated the right heir of his succession.
A. W. Ward
In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
Related terms Edit Translations Edit
to overcome in battle or contest
Arabic: غلب ġálaba ), هزم házama )
Aromanian: azvingu frãngu anichisescu bat
Asturian: vencer
Bulgarian: разбивам (bg) (razbivam ), побеждавам (bg) (pobeždavam )
Catalan: vèncer (ca)
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chinese:
Mandarin: 打敗 打败 (zh) (dǎbài )
Czech: porazit (cs)
Danish: besejre overvinde
Dutch: verslaan (nl) , overwinnen (nl)
Esperanto: vinki
Estonian: võitma
Finnish: voittaa (fi) , päihittää
French: vaincre (fr) , défaire (fr)
Galician: vencer (gl) , derrotar bater (gl)
German: schlagen (de) , besiegen (de) , niederringen
Greek: νικώ (el) (nikó ), ανατρέπω (el) (anatrépo )
Hebrew: הביס hevís )
Hungarian: legyőz (hu)
Irish: buaigh ar faigh an lámh in uachtar ar cloígh
Italian: sconfiggere (it) , battere (it)
Japanese: 負かす まかす, makasu ), やっつける (ja) (yattsukeru ), 倒す taosu )
Khmer: ឈ្នះ (km) (cneah )
Korean: 지우다 (ko) (jiuda )
Latgalian: īveikt puorveikt
Latin: vincere
Latvian: uzvarēt sakaut uzveikt
Lithuanian: nugalėti (lt) , įveikti sukauti
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: overvinne (no) , beseire
Occitan: vencir (oc)
Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: شکست دادن (fa) (šekast dâdan )
Polish: pokonać (pl)
Portuguese: derrotar (pt) , vencer (pt)
Quechua: llalliy
Romanian: învinge (ro) , înfrânge (ro) , bate (ro)
Russian: побеждать (ru) impf pobeždátʹ ), победить (ru) pf pobedítʹ ), разбивать (ru) impf razbivátʹ ), разбить (ru) pf razbítʹ )
Spanish: derrotar vencer (es)
Swedish: besegra (sv) , övervinna (sv)
Telugu: ఓడించు (te) (ōḍiṃcu )
Turkish: yenmek (tr) , mağlup etmek (tr)
Volapük: please add this translation if you can
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Indonesian : mengalahkan (id)
defeat (plural defeats
The act of defeating or being defeated.
2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd ”, BBC Sport :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.
Translations Edit
the act of defeating or being defeated
Afrikaans: please add this translation if you can Albanian: please add this translation if you can Amharic: please add this translation if you can Arabic: اندحار m indiħār ), انكسار m inkisār ), هزيمة f hazīma )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can Armenian: պարտություն partutʿyun )
Aromanian: please add this translation if you can Asturian: vencimientu m
Azeri: please add this translation if you can Bashkir: please add this translation if you can Basque: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: please add this translation if you can Breton: please add this translation if you can Bulgarian: поражение (bg) n poraženie ), унищожение (bg) n uništoženie )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can Catalan: venciment m derrota f
Cherokee: please add this translation if you can Chinese:
Mandarin: 败仗 (zh) (bàizhàng )
Czech: porážka f
Danish: usejr c tab n
Dutch: nederlaag (nl)
Esperanto: malvenko
Estonian: please add this translation if you can Faroese: ósigur m
Finnish: tappio (fi) , häviö (fi)
French: défaite (fr) f
Friulian: please add this translation if you can Galician: vencemento (gl) m derrota (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Niederlage (de) f
Greek: ήττα (el) f ítta )
Gujarati: please add this translation if you can Hausa: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: hāʻule eo make
Hebrew: ( act of being defeated ) תבוסה f tvusa )
Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: vereség (hu) , kudarc (hu)
Icelandic: please add this translation if you can Ido: please add this translation if you can Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Interlingua: please add this translation if you can Interlingue: please add this translation if you can Irish: díomua m briseadh m maidhm f
Italian: sconfitta (it) f disfatta (it) f fallimento (it) m insuccesso (it) m
Japanese: 敗北 (ja) (haiboku ), 挫折 (ja) (zasetsu )
Kannada: please add this translation if you can Kazakh: please add this translation if you can Khmer: ការឈ្នះ kaa chneah ) ( act of defeating ) ការចាញ់ kaa jañ ) ( being defeated )
Korean: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: please add this translation if you can Kyrgyz: please add this translation if you can Lao: please add this translation if you can Latin: clades f
Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Malayalam: please add this translation if you can Maltese: please add this translation if you can Maori: please add this translation if you can Marathi: please add this translation if you can Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Nepali: please add this translation if you can Norwegian: nederlag n
Novial: please add this translation if you can Occitan: vencement (oc) m venciment (oc) m
Old English: please add this translation if you can Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: شکست دادن (fa)
Polish: porażka (pl) f
Portuguese: derrota (pt) f vencimento (pt) m
Punjabi: please add this translation if you can Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can Russian: поражение (ru) n poražénije )
Scottish Gaelic: call m
Sicilian: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: poraz m
Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can Slovak: porážka f
Slovene: please add this translation if you can Somali: please add this translation if you can Spanish: vencimiento (es) m derrota (es) f
Swedish: nederlag (sv) n förlust (sv) c
Tamil: please add this translation if you can Telugu: ఓటు (te) (ōṭu ), ఓటమి (te) (ōṭami )
Thai: ความปราชัย kwaam bpraachai )
Turkish: yenilgi (tr) , mağlubiyet (tr)
Turkmen: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Volapük: please add this translation if you can Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: please add this translation if you can
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