Defeat

·v An undoing or annulling; destruction.

II. Defeat ·vt To resist with success; as, to defeat an Assault.

III. Defeat ·vt To Undo; to Disfigure; to Destroy.

IV. Defeat ·v Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

V. Defeat ·v An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture;

— opposed to victory.

VI. Defeat ·vt To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an Estate.

VII. Defeat ·vt To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to Overthrow.