0 past simple and past participle of defeat
1 to win against someone in a fight, war, or competition:
Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo.
The proposal to change the rules was narrowly defeated (= by a very small number) by 201 votes to 196.
Our ambitions for this tournament have been defeated by the weather.
I'm afraid anything that involves language learning has always defeated me (= I have been unable to do it).
The French were defeated at Waterloo in 1815.
The team were overwhelmingly defeated in yesterday's game.
The four-times champion was unexpectedly defeated in the second round of the competition.
The latter would obtain whenever the r ule, even though applicable, is defeated by reasons that fell outside its (partially) exclusionar y scope.
Others undoubtedly were defeated in battle but were unrecorded, and some became bandits.
Local reform had neither changed women's behaviour nor won their hearts, but it had defeated mass anti-colonial labour politics for the time being.
