Definition of defeat in English:

defeat

verb dɪˈfiːtdəˈfit

[with object]

1Win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat.
（战斗或其他比赛中）击败，战胜（某人）
Garibaldi defeated the Neapolitan army
加里波第击败了那不勒斯军队。
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1644, the Royalist troops were defeated in the battle of Marston Moor.
- From page he became confidential emissary to James, and in 1685 after playing a decisive part in defeating Monmouth's rebel army he became a major-general.
- The rebels were defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor.
- When William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, it changed the future of English forever.
- I am defeating you in this battle and you perfectly know it’ said Mareki with a smile.
- Brooks scored his first Atlanta Dragway victory when he defeated Steve Adams in the Super Pro final.
- In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston.
- After defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William gained control over England by the use of the Feudal System.
- She was an Amazon warrior queen before Theseus defeated her in battle, also winning her heart.
- The Allies defeated him in battle over the course of the next two years, and finally, on March 31, 1814, Paris fell.
- The Egyptian army was defeated at the battle of Tell el-Kebir.
- The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July.
- On an incursion into Northumberland, he was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
- At Lewes, on May 14th, 1264, he defeated Henry III in battle.
- Regular troops can also attain better experience levels by surviving battles and defeating enemies.
- Sun Tzu says defeating the enemy without battle requires greater skill than winning on the battlefield.
- Unlike conventional warfare, they are not seeking to take territory or defeat us in open battle.
- There was nothing like the feeling of meeting another in battle, the power of wielding a sword, and the victory of defeating the enemy.
- Henry Tudor succeeded to the throne in 1485, after defeating Richard in the Battle of Bosworth.
- Ecgberht had blood claims on the kingdom of the West Saxons and probably Kent; he became briefly king of the Mercians after defeating their king in battle.
Synonyms
beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish
rout, trounce, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, crush, quash, bring someone to their knees
quell, subjugate, subdue, repulse
informal lick, thrash, hammer, whip, wipe the floor with, walk all over, give someone a hiding, take to the cleaners, blow out of the water, run rings round/around, make mincemeat of, clobber, paste, pound, pulverize, crucify, murder, massacre, slaughter, demolish, drub, give someone a drubbing, cane, zap, flatten, turn inside out, tank, pwn
British informal stuff, marmalize
North American informal blow out, cream, shellac, skunk, slam
US informal own
1. 1.1 Prevent (someone) from achieving an aim.
  挫败（某人），使（某人）落空
  she was defeated by the last steep hill
  她没能越过最后一座陡峭的小山。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The vastnesses of the Russian forest and people defeated every invader which came against them, throughout history.
  I could let the discomfort and frustration defeat me, as they sometimes had, or I could accept them as a necessary part of getting better.
  If this education stopped with us, the ultimate aim of HIV / AIDS prevention would be defeated.
  Matthew Hoy of Hoystory writes to tell me that the Democrats actually filibustered Lee to prevent the Republicans from defeating his nomination.
  Such efforts present African Americans frustrated but not defeated by circumstances.
  Synonyms
  thwart, block, frustrate, prevent, foil, baulk, ruin, put a stop to, scotch, obviate, forestall, debar, snooker, derail
  obstruct, impede, hinder, hamper, deter, discomfit
  informal put the kibosh on, nip in the bud, put paid to, put the stopper on, do for, stymie
  British informal scupper, put the mockers on, nobble
2. 1.2 Prevent (an aim) from being achieved.
  阻止达成（目的），使（目标）无法实现
  don't cheat by allowing your body to droop—this defeats the object of the exercise
  不要弯曲身体，那是偷懒——这样会达不到锻炼目的的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives.
  Otherwise travellers will need to find alternative ways of getting to London - defeating an object of traffic reduction.
  A problem that has to be dealt with immediately, however, is the influx of people into Alexandra, defeating the objective of de-densifying the overcrowded township.
  Coimbatore's roadside parks and islands stand to defeat the very objective of road-safety.
  Paradoxically, it drove people to take the law into their own hands more than ever before defeating the purported objective behind the law.
  This will defeat the object of a by-pass which will soon become full with short distance commuters.
  But quite frankly if it's going to rain all week then the object has been defeated.
  The Outer Ring Road was designed to keep truck traffic away from the city, but the growth of the suburbs defeated this objective.
  Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance.
  We were in danger of becoming a call centre - which defeated the objective of being a technology-based solution.
  Inclusion of modern subjects would defeat this objective.
  I, of course, prefer giving the constitution's limits effect over a restraint that defeat the constitution's aim.
  Thirdly, it is the accused himself who, by drinking after the event, defeats the aim of the legislature by doing something which makes the scientific test potentially unreliable.
  Besides, the big clearing banks would probably refuse to honour the holiday and stay open, defeating the object of ‘coming together as a nation’ or whatever else it is people do on their national days.
  On my first run, he stopped chortling long enough to point out that to use your legs as brakes the whole way down the hill is rather defeating the object.
  It would surely defeat the object of the exercise if we were to give everything away for free?
  Its spokeswoman Nancy Webster said she feared the high charges would defeat the object of the legislation.
  The closure of a further service facility in rural areas will completely defeat this aim.
  In fact disclosure of their meaning would defeat their very object in sending them.
  ‘If we grant one temporary permission we would have to grant them all, which defeats the object of the law,’ he said.
3. 1.3 Reject or block (a motion or proposal)
  反对，妨碍（动议或提议）
  the amendment was defeated
  修正案被否决了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Are you now glad that both proposals were defeated?
  Labour eventually defeated the motion 26 votes to 23.
  This proposal was defeated and since then there has been considerable debate as to how to respond to the Supreme Court decision.
  Three years after a referendum in which a republican proposal was defeated, the movement remains alive, although it has no obvious path toward attaining its goal.
  The motion was defeated by just one vote last year, but even since then, there is a far more liberal attitude within the association.
  When that motion was defeated, another was created to add an item to the agenda to further discuss the interpretation of the proxy voting bylaw.
  The motion was defeated by a razor thin vote of 137 to 132.
  The counter proposal was defeated by 6 votes to 2.
  However, the motion was defeated by 80 votes to 24.
  The team defeated the motion which was ‘That child labour is a necessity in the developing world.’
  The ‘don't knows’ have melted to 45, and the motion is defeated by 400 to 265.
  The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions.
  If the proposal is defeated the developers could build a 100-foot tower on the same site, but none of the community bonuses would be included in the deal.
  When it was initially proposed early in 2001, the motion was defeated by the combined votes of the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors.
  The motion was subsequently defeated by 26 votes to 24 at a council meeting in June 12, 1992.
  They invoked the Armageddon option and started threatening to table a vote of confidence in the Government if the rebels defeated the proposal.
  It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so.
  The Senate defeats proposals to roll back overtime pay.
  The motion was defeated at Holyrood on Thursday.
  This proposal was defeated in the UN General Assembly by 60 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions.
  Synonyms
  reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, outvote, spurn, rebuff, turn down
  informal give the thumbs down
4. 1.4 Be impossible for (someone) to understand.
  使无法理解
  this line of reasoning defeats me, I must confess
  这样的推理我无法理解，我必须承认。
  Example sentencesExamples
  For reasons that defeat us, The Road Goes On Forever has been out of print for 20 years.
  While some may see this as an instance of human narcissism defeating scientific understanding, we would do better to see it as a reason for tempering the narcissism of science.
  Every time you think you have a handle on it, you are simply defeated by the impossible vastness of even the smallest aspects of space.
  Synonyms
  baffle, puzzle, perplex, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, frustrate, nonplus, throw
  informal beat, flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, fox, be all Greek to
5. 1.5Law Render null and void; annul.
  〔律〕使无效，废除
  Example sentencesExamples
  In each case the insured defendant failed to defeat the claim and in each his liability to the plaintiff exceeded the limit of the indemnity provided.
  The Plaintiff maintains that those transfers were intended to defeat the Plaintiff.
  Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether.
  This contrast is sufficient to defeat the defendants' argument, as a matter of binding authority.
  To hold otherwise would likely defeat the plaintiff's right to have these claims heard on their merits.

noun dɪˈfiːtdəˈfit

An instance of defeating or being defeated.
击败，被打败
a 1–0 defeat by Grimsby
1比0被格里姆斯比队打败。
mass noun she had still not quite admitted defeat
她还是没有完全承认失败。
Example sentencesExamples
- But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections.
- Michelle has not let her recent defeat at the local elections dampen her spirits, and was, in fact, encouraged by the results.
- She was a representative for Dun Laoghaire from February 1987 until her defeat in the general election of June 1989.
- Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency.
- They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats.
- The 1940 election saw the defeat of then Mayor Telford.
- The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances.
- Nixon's performance in this debate was in part instrumental in his defeat and the election of John F. Kennedy to the White house in the November 1960.
- It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats.
- ‘The first 12 months after an election defeat are always difficult,’ Smith said.
- They have made no progress between their landslide defeat in the 1997 election and their second defeat in 2001.
- He lost his job after a shock defeat at the local elections in June.
- After the election defeat in May 2004, the Party has gone through a series of crises.
- They haven't even begun - after two election defeats!
- It was always going to be difficult to get all of us in the same city on the same day and despite frantic juggling we've had to admit a temporary defeat.
Synonyms
loss, beating, conquest, conquering, besting, worsting, vanquishing, vanquishment, {game, set, and match}
rout, trouncing, overpowering, subjugation, subduing
reverse, debacle, downfall
informal thrashing, hiding, drubbing, licking, hammering, whipping, clobbering, pasting, pounding, pulverizing, massacre, slaughter, demolition, caning, flattening, pwnage
US informal ownage
failure, downfall, breakdown, collapse, ruin, lack of success, discomfiture, rejection, frustration, foundering, misfiring, overthrow, abortion, miscarriage
undoing, reverse
disappointment, setback

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'undo, destroy, annul'): from Old French desfait 'undone', past participle of desfaire, from medieval Latin disfacere 'undo'.

Early recorded senses were ‘undo, destroy, annul’; it goes back to medieval Latin disfacere ‘undo’.

Definition of defeat in US English:

defeat

verbdəˈfētdəˈfit

[with object]

1Win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat.
（战斗或其他比赛中）击败，战胜（某人）
Arab armies defeated the Byzantine garrison
Example sentencesExamples
- When William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, it changed the future of English forever.
- On an incursion into Northumberland, he was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
- The Allies defeated him in battle over the course of the next two years, and finally, on March 31, 1814, Paris fell.
- There was nothing like the feeling of meeting another in battle, the power of wielding a sword, and the victory of defeating the enemy.
- Sun Tzu says defeating the enemy without battle requires greater skill than winning on the battlefield.
- She was an Amazon warrior queen before Theseus defeated her in battle, also winning her heart.
- The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July.
- At Lewes, on May 14th, 1264, he defeated Henry III in battle.
- The Egyptian army was defeated at the battle of Tell el-Kebir.
- Brooks scored his first Atlanta Dragway victory when he defeated Steve Adams in the Super Pro final.
- I am defeating you in this battle and you perfectly know it’ said Mareki with a smile.
- Unlike conventional warfare, they are not seeking to take territory or defeat us in open battle.
- In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston.
- From page he became confidential emissary to James, and in 1685 after playing a decisive part in defeating Monmouth's rebel army he became a major-general.
- Ecgberht had blood claims on the kingdom of the West Saxons and probably Kent; he became briefly king of the Mercians after defeating their king in battle.
- The rebels were defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor.
- Regular troops can also attain better experience levels by surviving battles and defeating enemies.
- After defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William gained control over England by the use of the Feudal System.
- Henry Tudor succeeded to the throne in 1485, after defeating Richard in the Battle of Bosworth.
- In 1644, the Royalist troops were defeated in the battle of Marston Moor.
Synonyms
beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish
1. 1.1 Prevent (someone) from achieving an aim.
  挫败（某人），使（某人）落空
  she was defeated by the last steep hill
  她没能越过最后一座陡峭的小山。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such efforts present African Americans frustrated but not defeated by circumstances.
  Matthew Hoy of Hoystory writes to tell me that the Democrats actually filibustered Lee to prevent the Republicans from defeating his nomination.
  I could let the discomfort and frustration defeat me, as they sometimes had, or I could accept them as a necessary part of getting better.
  The vastnesses of the Russian forest and people defeated every invader which came against them, throughout history.
  If this education stopped with us, the ultimate aim of HIV / AIDS prevention would be defeated.
  Synonyms
  thwart, block, frustrate, prevent, foil, baulk, ruin, put a stop to, scotch, obviate, forestall, debar, snooker, derail
2. 1.2 Prevent (an aim) from being achieved.
  阻止达成（目的），使（目标）无法实现
  don't cheat by allowing your body to droop—this defeats the object of the exercise
  不要弯曲身体，那是偷懒——这样会达不到锻炼目的的。
  Example sentencesExamples
  On my first run, he stopped chortling long enough to point out that to use your legs as brakes the whole way down the hill is rather defeating the object.
  I, of course, prefer giving the constitution's limits effect over a restraint that defeat the constitution's aim.
  Inclusion of modern subjects would defeat this objective.
  Besides, the big clearing banks would probably refuse to honour the holiday and stay open, defeating the object of ‘coming together as a nation’ or whatever else it is people do on their national days.
  ‘If we grant one temporary permission we would have to grant them all, which defeats the object of the law,’ he said.
  But quite frankly if it's going to rain all week then the object has been defeated.
  Its spokeswoman Nancy Webster said she feared the high charges would defeat the object of the legislation.
  In fact disclosure of their meaning would defeat their very object in sending them.
  Paradoxically, it drove people to take the law into their own hands more than ever before defeating the purported objective behind the law.
  The closure of a further service facility in rural areas will completely defeat this aim.
  They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives.
  The Outer Ring Road was designed to keep truck traffic away from the city, but the growth of the suburbs defeated this objective.
  Otherwise travellers will need to find alternative ways of getting to London - defeating an object of traffic reduction.
  A problem that has to be dealt with immediately, however, is the influx of people into Alexandra, defeating the objective of de-densifying the overcrowded township.
  This will defeat the object of a by-pass which will soon become full with short distance commuters.
  Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance.
  Thirdly, it is the accused himself who, by drinking after the event, defeats the aim of the legislature by doing something which makes the scientific test potentially unreliable.
  We were in danger of becoming a call centre - which defeated the objective of being a technology-based solution.
  It would surely defeat the object of the exercise if we were to give everything away for free?
  Coimbatore's roadside parks and islands stand to defeat the very objective of road-safety.
3. 1.3 Reject or block (a motion or proposal)
  反对，妨碍（动议或提议）
  the amendment was defeated
  修正案被否决了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  When that motion was defeated, another was created to add an item to the agenda to further discuss the interpretation of the proxy voting bylaw.
  However, the motion was defeated by 80 votes to 24.
  If the proposal is defeated the developers could build a 100-foot tower on the same site, but none of the community bonuses would be included in the deal.
  The Senate defeats proposals to roll back overtime pay.
  This proposal was defeated and since then there has been considerable debate as to how to respond to the Supreme Court decision.
  They invoked the Armageddon option and started threatening to table a vote of confidence in the Government if the rebels defeated the proposal.
  Labour eventually defeated the motion 26 votes to 23.
  When it was initially proposed early in 2001, the motion was defeated by the combined votes of the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors.
  This proposal was defeated in the UN General Assembly by 60 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions.
  Three years after a referendum in which a republican proposal was defeated, the movement remains alive, although it has no obvious path toward attaining its goal.
  Are you now glad that both proposals were defeated?
  The motion was defeated at Holyrood on Thursday.
  It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so.
  The motion was subsequently defeated by 26 votes to 24 at a council meeting in June 12, 1992.
  The motion was defeated by a razor thin vote of 137 to 132.
  The counter proposal was defeated by 6 votes to 2.
  The motion was defeated by just one vote last year, but even since then, there is a far more liberal attitude within the association.
  The ‘don't knows’ have melted to 45, and the motion is defeated by 400 to 265.
  The team defeated the motion which was ‘That child labour is a necessity in the developing world.’
  The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions.
  Synonyms
  reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, outvote, spurn, rebuff, turn down
4. 1.4 Be impossible for (someone) to understand.
  使无法理解
  this line of reasoning defeats me, I must confess
  这样的推理我无法理解，我必须承认。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Every time you think you have a handle on it, you are simply defeated by the impossible vastness of even the smallest aspects of space.
  While some may see this as an instance of human narcissism defeating scientific understanding, we would do better to see it as a reason for tempering the narcissism of science.
  For reasons that defeat us, The Road Goes On Forever has been out of print for 20 years.
  Synonyms
  baffle, puzzle, perplex, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, frustrate, nonplus, throw
5. 1.5Law Render null and void; annul.
  〔律〕使无效，废除
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether.
  To hold otherwise would likely defeat the plaintiff's right to have these claims heard on their merits.
  In each case the insured defendant failed to defeat the claim and in each his liability to the plaintiff exceeded the limit of the indemnity provided.
  This contrast is sufficient to defeat the defendants' argument, as a matter of binding authority.
  The Plaintiff maintains that those transfers were intended to defeat the Plaintiff.

noundəˈfētdəˈfit

An instance of defeating or being defeated.
击败，被打败
she had still not quite admitted defeat
她还是没有完全承认失败。
the defeat of the Armada in 1588
Example sentencesExamples
- The 1940 election saw the defeat of then Mayor Telford.
- After the election defeat in May 2004, the Party has gone through a series of crises.
- It was always going to be difficult to get all of us in the same city on the same day and despite frantic juggling we've had to admit a temporary defeat.
- But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections.
- Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency.
- She was a representative for Dun Laoghaire from February 1987 until her defeat in the general election of June 1989.
- ‘The first 12 months after an election defeat are always difficult,’ Smith said.
- Nixon's performance in this debate was in part instrumental in his defeat and the election of John F. Kennedy to the White house in the November 1960.
- They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats.
- He lost his job after a shock defeat at the local elections in June.
- They have made no progress between their landslide defeat in the 1997 election and their second defeat in 2001.
- The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances.
- It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats.
- Michelle has not let her recent defeat at the local elections dampen her spirits, and was, in fact, encouraged by the results.
- They haven't even begun - after two election defeats!
Synonyms
loss, beating, conquest, conquering, besting, worsting, vanquishing, vanquishment, game, set, and match
failure, downfall, breakdown, collapse, ruin, lack of success, discomfiture, rejection, frustration, foundering, misfiring, overthrow, abortion, miscarriage

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘undo, destroy, annul’): from Old French desfait ‘undone’, past participle of desfaire, from medieval Latin disfacere ‘undo’.

词汇	defeat
释义	Definition of defeat in English: defeat verb dɪˈfiːtdəˈfit [with object] 1Win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat. （战斗或其他比赛中）击败，战胜（某人） Garibaldi defeated the Neapolitan army 加里波第击败了那不勒斯军队。 Example sentencesExamples In 1644, the Royalist troops were defeated in the battle of Marston Moor. From page he became confidential emissary to James, and in 1685 after playing a decisive part in defeating Monmouth's rebel army he became a major-general. The rebels were defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor. When William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, it changed the future of English forever. I am defeating you in this battle and you perfectly know it’ said Mareki with a smile. Brooks scored his first Atlanta Dragway victory when he defeated Steve Adams in the Super Pro final. In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston. After defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William gained control over England by the use of the Feudal System. She was an Amazon warrior queen before Theseus defeated her in battle, also winning her heart. The Allies defeated him in battle over the course of the next two years, and finally, on March 31, 1814, Paris fell. The Egyptian army was defeated at the battle of Tell el-Kebir. The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July. On an incursion into Northumberland, he was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge. At Lewes, on May 14th, 1264, he defeated Henry III in battle. Regular troops can also attain better experience levels by surviving battles and defeating enemies. Sun Tzu says defeating the enemy without battle requires greater skill than winning on the battlefield. Unlike conventional warfare, they are not seeking to take territory or defeat us in open battle. There was nothing like the feeling of meeting another in battle, the power of wielding a sword, and the victory of defeating the enemy. Henry Tudor succeeded to the throne in 1485, after defeating Richard in the Battle of Bosworth. Ecgberht had blood claims on the kingdom of the West Saxons and probably Kent; he became briefly king of the Mercians after defeating their king in battle. Synonyms beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish rout, trounce, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overwhelm, crush, quash, bring someone to their knees quell, subjugate, subdue, repulse informal lick, thrash, hammer, whip, wipe the floor with, walk all over, give someone a hiding, take to the cleaners, blow out of the water, run rings round/around, make mincemeat of, clobber, paste, pound, pulverize, crucify, murder, massacre, slaughter, demolish, drub, give someone a drubbing, cane, zap, flatten, turn inside out, tank, pwn British informal stuff, marmalize North American informal blow out, cream, shellac, skunk, slam US informal own 1.1 Prevent (someone) from achieving an aim. 挫败（某人），使（某人）落空 she was defeated by the last steep hill 她没能越过最后一座陡峭的小山。 Example sentencesExamples The vastnesses of the Russian forest and people defeated every invader which came against them, throughout history. I could let the discomfort and frustration defeat me, as they sometimes had, or I could accept them as a necessary part of getting better. If this education stopped with us, the ultimate aim of HIV / AIDS prevention would be defeated. Matthew Hoy of Hoystory writes to tell me that the Democrats actually filibustered Lee to prevent the Republicans from defeating his nomination. Such efforts present African Americans frustrated but not defeated by circumstances. Synonyms thwart, block, frustrate, prevent, foil, baulk, ruin, put a stop to, scotch, obviate, forestall, debar, snooker, derail obstruct, impede, hinder, hamper, deter, discomfit informal put the kibosh on, nip in the bud, put paid to, put the stopper on, do for, stymie British informal scupper, put the mockers on, nobble 1.2 Prevent (an aim) from being achieved. 阻止达成（目的），使（目标）无法实现 don't cheat by allowing your body to droop—this defeats the object of the exercise 不要弯曲身体，那是偷懒——这样会达不到锻炼目的的。 Example sentencesExamples They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives. Otherwise travellers will need to find alternative ways of getting to London - defeating an object of traffic reduction. A problem that has to be dealt with immediately, however, is the influx of people into Alexandra, defeating the objective of de-densifying the overcrowded township. Coimbatore's roadside parks and islands stand to defeat the very objective of road-safety. Paradoxically, it drove people to take the law into their own hands more than ever before defeating the purported objective behind the law. This will defeat the object of a by-pass which will soon become full with short distance commuters. But quite frankly if it's going to rain all week then the object has been defeated. The Outer Ring Road was designed to keep truck traffic away from the city, but the growth of the suburbs defeated this objective. Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance. We were in danger of becoming a call centre - which defeated the objective of being a technology-based solution. Inclusion of modern subjects would defeat this objective. I, of course, prefer giving the constitution's limits effect over a restraint that defeat the constitution's aim. Thirdly, it is the accused himself who, by drinking after the event, defeats the aim of the legislature by doing something which makes the scientific test potentially unreliable. Besides, the big clearing banks would probably refuse to honour the holiday and stay open, defeating the object of ‘coming together as a nation’ or whatever else it is people do on their national days. On my first run, he stopped chortling long enough to point out that to use your legs as brakes the whole way down the hill is rather defeating the object. It would surely defeat the object of the exercise if we were to give everything away for free? Its spokeswoman Nancy Webster said she feared the high charges would defeat the object of the legislation. The closure of a further service facility in rural areas will completely defeat this aim. In fact disclosure of their meaning would defeat their very object in sending them. ‘If we grant one temporary permission we would have to grant them all, which defeats the object of the law,’ he said. 1.3 Reject or block (a motion or proposal) 反对，妨碍（动议或提议） the amendment was defeated 修正案被否决了。 Example sentencesExamples Are you now glad that both proposals were defeated? Labour eventually defeated the motion 26 votes to 23. This proposal was defeated and since then there has been considerable debate as to how to respond to the Supreme Court decision. Three years after a referendum in which a republican proposal was defeated, the movement remains alive, although it has no obvious path toward attaining its goal. The motion was defeated by just one vote last year, but even since then, there is a far more liberal attitude within the association. When that motion was defeated, another was created to add an item to the agenda to further discuss the interpretation of the proxy voting bylaw. The motion was defeated by a razor thin vote of 137 to 132. The counter proposal was defeated by 6 votes to 2. However, the motion was defeated by 80 votes to 24. The team defeated the motion which was ‘That child labour is a necessity in the developing world.’ The ‘don't knows’ have melted to 45, and the motion is defeated by 400 to 265. The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions. If the proposal is defeated the developers could build a 100-foot tower on the same site, but none of the community bonuses would be included in the deal. When it was initially proposed early in 2001, the motion was defeated by the combined votes of the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors. The motion was subsequently defeated by 26 votes to 24 at a council meeting in June 12, 1992. They invoked the Armageddon option and started threatening to table a vote of confidence in the Government if the rebels defeated the proposal. It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so. The Senate defeats proposals to roll back overtime pay. The motion was defeated at Holyrood on Thursday. This proposal was defeated in the UN General Assembly by 60 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions. Synonyms reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, outvote, spurn, rebuff, turn down informal give the thumbs down 1.4 Be impossible for (someone) to understand. 使无法理解 this line of reasoning defeats me, I must confess 这样的推理我无法理解，我必须承认。 Example sentencesExamples For reasons that defeat us, The Road Goes On Forever has been out of print for 20 years. While some may see this as an instance of human narcissism defeating scientific understanding, we would do better to see it as a reason for tempering the narcissism of science. Every time you think you have a handle on it, you are simply defeated by the impossible vastness of even the smallest aspects of space. Synonyms baffle, puzzle, perplex, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, frustrate, nonplus, throw informal beat, flummox, discombobulate, faze, stump, fox, be all Greek to 1.5Law Render null and void; annul. 〔律〕使无效，废除 Example sentencesExamples In each case the insured defendant failed to defeat the claim and in each his liability to the plaintiff exceeded the limit of the indemnity provided. The Plaintiff maintains that those transfers were intended to defeat the Plaintiff. Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether. This contrast is sufficient to defeat the defendants' argument, as a matter of binding authority. To hold otherwise would likely defeat the plaintiff's right to have these claims heard on their merits. noun dɪˈfiːtdəˈfit An instance of defeating or being defeated. 击败，被打败 a 1–0 defeat by Grimsby 1比0被格里姆斯比队打败。 mass noun she had still not quite admitted defeat 她还是没有完全承认失败。 Example sentencesExamples But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections. Michelle has not let her recent defeat at the local elections dampen her spirits, and was, in fact, encouraged by the results. She was a representative for Dun Laoghaire from February 1987 until her defeat in the general election of June 1989. Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency. They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats. The 1940 election saw the defeat of then Mayor Telford. The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances. Nixon's performance in this debate was in part instrumental in his defeat and the election of John F. Kennedy to the White house in the November 1960. It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats. ‘The first 12 months after an election defeat are always difficult,’ Smith said. They have made no progress between their landslide defeat in the 1997 election and their second defeat in 2001. He lost his job after a shock defeat at the local elections in June. After the election defeat in May 2004, the Party has gone through a series of crises. They haven't even begun - after two election defeats! It was always going to be difficult to get all of us in the same city on the same day and despite frantic juggling we've had to admit a temporary defeat. Synonyms loss, beating, conquest, conquering, besting, worsting, vanquishing, vanquishment, {game, set, and match} rout, trouncing, overpowering, subjugation, subduing reverse, debacle, downfall informal thrashing, hiding, drubbing, licking, hammering, whipping, clobbering, pasting, pounding, pulverizing, massacre, slaughter, demolition, caning, flattening, pwnage US informal ownage failure, downfall, breakdown, collapse, ruin, lack of success, discomfiture, rejection, frustration, foundering, misfiring, overthrow, abortion, miscarriage undoing, reverse disappointment, setback Origin Late Middle English (in the sense 'undo, destroy, annul'): from Old French desfait 'undone', past participle of desfaire, from medieval Latin disfacere 'undo'. Early recorded senses were ‘undo, destroy, annul’; it goes back to medieval Latin disfacere ‘undo’. Definition of defeat in US English: defeat verbdəˈfētdəˈfit [with object] 1Win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat. （战斗或其他比赛中）击败，战胜（某人） Arab armies defeated the Byzantine garrison Example sentencesExamples When William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, it changed the future of English forever. On an incursion into Northumberland, he was defeated at the battle of Stamford Bridge. The Allies defeated him in battle over the course of the next two years, and finally, on March 31, 1814, Paris fell. There was nothing like the feeling of meeting another in battle, the power of wielding a sword, and the victory of defeating the enemy. Sun Tzu says defeating the enemy without battle requires greater skill than winning on the battlefield. She was an Amazon warrior queen before Theseus defeated her in battle, also winning her heart. The Prussian army invaded Baden, defeated the rebels, and forced the last remnants of the German revolution to capitulate in the fortress of Rastatt on 23 July. At Lewes, on May 14th, 1264, he defeated Henry III in battle. The Egyptian army was defeated at the battle of Tell el-Kebir. Brooks scored his first Atlanta Dragway victory when he defeated Steve Adams in the Super Pro final. I am defeating you in this battle and you perfectly know it’ said Mareki with a smile. Unlike conventional warfare, they are not seeking to take territory or defeat us in open battle. In 1715, Jacobite rebels were defeated at the battle of Preston. From page he became confidential emissary to James, and in 1685 after playing a decisive part in defeating Monmouth's rebel army he became a major-general. Ecgberht had blood claims on the kingdom of the West Saxons and probably Kent; he became briefly king of the Mercians after defeating their king in battle. The rebels were defeated at the battle of Sedgemoor. Regular troops can also attain better experience levels by surviving battles and defeating enemies. After defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings, William gained control over England by the use of the Feudal System. Henry Tudor succeeded to the throne in 1485, after defeating Richard in the Battle of Bosworth. In 1644, the Royalist troops were defeated in the battle of Marston Moor. Synonyms beat, conquer, win against, win a victory over, triumph over, prevail over, get the better of, best, worst, vanquish 1.1 Prevent (someone) from achieving an aim. 挫败（某人），使（某人）落空 she was defeated by the last steep hill 她没能越过最后一座陡峭的小山。 Example sentencesExamples Such efforts present African Americans frustrated but not defeated by circumstances. Matthew Hoy of Hoystory writes to tell me that the Democrats actually filibustered Lee to prevent the Republicans from defeating his nomination. I could let the discomfort and frustration defeat me, as they sometimes had, or I could accept them as a necessary part of getting better. The vastnesses of the Russian forest and people defeated every invader which came against them, throughout history. If this education stopped with us, the ultimate aim of HIV / AIDS prevention would be defeated. Synonyms thwart, block, frustrate, prevent, foil, baulk, ruin, put a stop to, scotch, obviate, forestall, debar, snooker, derail 1.2 Prevent (an aim) from being achieved. 阻止达成（目的），使（目标）无法实现 don't cheat by allowing your body to droop—this defeats the object of the exercise 不要弯曲身体，那是偷懒——这样会达不到锻炼目的的。 Example sentencesExamples On my first run, he stopped chortling long enough to point out that to use your legs as brakes the whole way down the hill is rather defeating the object. I, of course, prefer giving the constitution's limits effect over a restraint that defeat the constitution's aim. Inclusion of modern subjects would defeat this objective. Besides, the big clearing banks would probably refuse to honour the holiday and stay open, defeating the object of ‘coming together as a nation’ or whatever else it is people do on their national days. ‘If we grant one temporary permission we would have to grant them all, which defeats the object of the law,’ he said. But quite frankly if it's going to rain all week then the object has been defeated. Its spokeswoman Nancy Webster said she feared the high charges would defeat the object of the legislation. In fact disclosure of their meaning would defeat their very object in sending them. Paradoxically, it drove people to take the law into their own hands more than ever before defeating the purported objective behind the law. The closure of a further service facility in rural areas will completely defeat this aim. They can be satisfied by ritualistic observance with little meaning, defeating their intended objectives. The Outer Ring Road was designed to keep truck traffic away from the city, but the growth of the suburbs defeated this objective. Otherwise travellers will need to find alternative ways of getting to London - defeating an object of traffic reduction. A problem that has to be dealt with immediately, however, is the influx of people into Alexandra, defeating the objective of de-densifying the overcrowded township. This will defeat the object of a by-pass which will soon become full with short distance commuters. Having too many choices not only defeats the objective of providing each of us with a neater fit but it inflates our sense of self-importance. Thirdly, it is the accused himself who, by drinking after the event, defeats the aim of the legislature by doing something which makes the scientific test potentially unreliable. We were in danger of becoming a call centre - which defeated the objective of being a technology-based solution. It would surely defeat the object of the exercise if we were to give everything away for free? Coimbatore's roadside parks and islands stand to defeat the very objective of road-safety. 1.3 Reject or block (a motion or proposal) 反对，妨碍（动议或提议） the amendment was defeated 修正案被否决了。 Example sentencesExamples When that motion was defeated, another was created to add an item to the agenda to further discuss the interpretation of the proxy voting bylaw. However, the motion was defeated by 80 votes to 24. If the proposal is defeated the developers could build a 100-foot tower on the same site, but none of the community bonuses would be included in the deal. The Senate defeats proposals to roll back overtime pay. This proposal was defeated and since then there has been considerable debate as to how to respond to the Supreme Court decision. They invoked the Armageddon option and started threatening to table a vote of confidence in the Government if the rebels defeated the proposal. Labour eventually defeated the motion 26 votes to 23. When it was initially proposed early in 2001, the motion was defeated by the combined votes of the Fianna Fail and Fine Gael councillors. This proposal was defeated in the UN General Assembly by 60 votes to 15, with 39 abstentions. Three years after a referendum in which a republican proposal was defeated, the movement remains alive, although it has no obvious path toward attaining its goal. Are you now glad that both proposals were defeated? The motion was defeated at Holyrood on Thursday. It was a clever stratagem for defeating the tax proposals without incurring the popular odium for doing so. The motion was subsequently defeated by 26 votes to 24 at a council meeting in June 12, 1992. The motion was defeated by a razor thin vote of 137 to 132. The counter proposal was defeated by 6 votes to 2. The motion was defeated by just one vote last year, but even since then, there is a far more liberal attitude within the association. The ‘don't knows’ have melted to 45, and the motion is defeated by 400 to 265. The team defeated the motion which was ‘That child labour is a necessity in the developing world.’ The proposal was soundly defeated in a recorded vote with only 11 voting for the motion. 67 voted against and there were 11 abstentions. Synonyms reject, overthrow, throw out, dismiss, outvote, spurn, rebuff, turn down 1.4 Be impossible for (someone) to understand. 使无法理解 this line of reasoning defeats me, I must confess 这样的推理我无法理解，我必须承认。 Example sentencesExamples Every time you think you have a handle on it, you are simply defeated by the impossible vastness of even the smallest aspects of space. While some may see this as an instance of human narcissism defeating scientific understanding, we would do better to see it as a reason for tempering the narcissism of science. For reasons that defeat us, The Road Goes On Forever has been out of print for 20 years. Synonyms baffle, puzzle, perplex, bewilder, mystify, bemuse, confuse, confound, frustrate, nonplus, throw 1.5Law Render null and void; annul. 〔律〕使无效，废除 Example sentencesExamples Before the Act, of course, a finding of contributory negligence defeated the claim altogether. To hold otherwise would likely defeat the plaintiff's right to have these claims heard on their merits. In each case the insured defendant failed to defeat the claim and in each his liability to the plaintiff exceeded the limit of the indemnity provided. This contrast is sufficient to defeat the defendants' argument, as a matter of binding authority. The Plaintiff maintains that those transfers were intended to defeat the Plaintiff. noundəˈfētdəˈfit An instance of defeating or being defeated. 击败，被打败 she had still not quite admitted defeat 她还是没有完全承认失败。 the defeat of the Armada in 1588 Example sentencesExamples The 1940 election saw the defeat of then Mayor Telford. After the election defeat in May 2004, the Party has gone through a series of crises. It was always going to be difficult to get all of us in the same city on the same day and despite frantic juggling we've had to admit a temporary defeat. But despite this fact the party has been uprooted from the political arena with defeats in both the elections. Election defeats are being interpreted by some as a referendum on the presidency. She was a representative for Dun Laoghaire from February 1987 until her defeat in the general election of June 1989. ‘The first 12 months after an election defeat are always difficult,’ Smith said. Nixon's performance in this debate was in part instrumental in his defeat and the election of John F. Kennedy to the White house in the November 1960. They lived the illusion of victory in every one of their lost battles, and to this day we refuse to admit our defeats. He lost his job after a shock defeat at the local elections in June. They have made no progress between their landslide defeat in the 1997 election and their second defeat in 2001. The two election defeats were put down to an inability to convince the electorate that they could be trusted with the nation's finances. It's not helped by an Opposition that has failed to respect its time-honoured tradition of turning on and devouring itself after successive election defeats. Michelle has not let her recent defeat at the local elections dampen her spirits, and was, in fact, encouraged by the results. They haven't even begun - after two election defeats! Synonyms loss, beating, conquest, conquering, besting, worsting, vanquishing, vanquishment, game, set, and match failure, downfall, breakdown, collapse, ruin, lack of success, discomfiture, rejection, frustration, foundering, misfiring, overthrow, abortion, miscarriage Origin Late Middle English (in the sense ‘undo, destroy, annul’): from Old French desfait ‘undone’, past participle of desfaire, from medieval Latin disfacere ‘undo’.
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