defeat
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3.1
- noun
- /dɪˈfiːt/
- After years of hard work, she felt the sting of defeat when she failed to win the competition.
- admit defeat
- admission of defeat
- defeat and failure
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Watch on YouTubeEvery day is full of little defeats and little victories.
- Every day is full of little defeats and little victories.
- And so you should take defeat personally.
- In that scene the sailors face their first fear, defeat, disgrace.
- There's nothing like divorce to snatch defeat from the jaws of financial success.
- The years and cold defeat live deep in lines along my face.
- I'd rather sulk in my sadness and defeat.
- You only know a man in how he accepts defeat.
- And moving off it is admitting defeat, you know, and I'm not there.
- These rights limit the depth of the defeat we can suffer.
Examples
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It is what we do in the face of defeat that defines us.
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There's dignity to be had in defeat.
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The years and cold defeat live deep in lines along my face.
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But when defeat took the words from me, the Lord spoke out for me.
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And so you should take defeat personally.
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In a world of defeat and failure, honor can be found only in resistance.
Academic text (2008) -
I think most of us face tremendous defeat at some point in our lives.
Fiction book (1994) -
Suddenly, she had a sense of deep defeat, a sense of her own foolishness.
Fiction book (1990) -
Defeat at the castle seems to have utterly disheartened King Arthur.
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Pedro, I'm a man who hates defeat, but I'm not too proud to be candid.
Synonyms
388
2.5
A feeling of anger or annoyance when you cannot get what you want
155
1.7
A feeling of sadness or being let down when something you wanted does not happen
20
3.4
A feeling of disappointment when something is not as good as you expected
14
6.5
A feeling of disappointment when something is not as good as you hoped
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3.6
A feeling of lost confidence that makes you want to stop trying
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8.3
A strong feeling of sadness and loss of hope after something bad
1
8.8
A feeling of deep sadness and no hope
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7.1
A feeling of being discouraged and without much hope
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7.3
A feeling of losing hope and confidence
Antonyms
Idioms
2
9.6
A team or person loses an almost certain win in the final minute because of a mistake
How Defeated
187
3.5
28
4.1
6
3.1
388
2.5
7
3.6
155
1.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Defeat can also mean the deep sadness after a loss, and it comes from the same idea of being 'undone' by events. That's why feeling defeat is feeling powerless or beaten.