0 present participle of defeat
1 to win against someone in a fight, war, or competition:
I'm afraid anything that involves language learning has always defeated me (= I have been unable to do it).
Our ambitions for this tournament have been defeated by the weather.
The proposal to change the rules was narrowly defeated (= by a very small number) by 201 votes to 196.
Napoleon was defeated by the Duke of Wellington at the battle of Waterloo.
But this requires modifying the stack module, defeating the idea of an abstract data type.
This allows us to say that the lesser evil doesn't actually produce the greater good, but rather only sustains it, by defeating defeaters to it.
By contrast, precedents exclude, absolutely, reasons based on factors present in the precedent case from defeating the first-order reason.
In equilibrium, the incumbent can always meet the incumbency criterion, defeating the challenger.
She is therefore likely to write them down, comprising security and defeating the efforts of the overall approach.
The most effective way of ' defeating ' fear would be ' confronting ' it until one felt in control.
Of course, other factors may also affect this calculus, including the possibility of modifying rather than defeating the reform.
The availability of credit from friendly central banks is of the first importance in defeating speculators.
