Definition of defeat
- v. t. - To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- v. t. - To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as
hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
- v. t. - To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse,
or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
- v. t. - To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
- 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.
- v. - An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle;
repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.