0 past simple and past 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.
Only historical materialism could take "the tiger's leap into the past" to bring back to consciousness precisely the defeated, marginalized, and forgotten resisters.
Corticotropin-releasing factor antagonist reduces emotionality in socially defeated rats via direct neurotropic action.
With a financial system based on municipal rents, the possibility of decent maintenance and upkeep was defeated by the massive scale of non-payment.
Among the latter, some viewed workers as eliteled, while others saw them as radical and threatening but defeated by 1916\17.
During the porfiriato, challenges to authority in the factory were usually and regularly defeated.
Television seems to me inimical to this inner sense, which is defeated by the ephemerality of the televisual flow.
Many exclusivists are epistemically impoverished, and thus the epistemic status of their exclusive beliefs may well be lessened or defeated by religious diversity.
If defeated, he would immediately call a general election.
