Usually means: Loss of position or advantage.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. defeat: Merriam-Webster
  2. defeat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defeat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defeat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defeat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defeat, defeat: Wordnik
  7. defeat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defeat: Wiktionary
  9. defeat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defeat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. defeat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. defeat: Dictionary.com
  13. defeat: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. defeat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Defeat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Defeat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. defeat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. defeat: Rhymezone
  19. defeat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. defeat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Defeat, Defeat: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. defeat: FreeDictionary.org
  23. defeat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. defeat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. defeat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. defeat: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. defeat: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defeat: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defeat: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defeat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
verb:  (transitive) To nullify
verb:  To prevent (something) from being achieved.
noun:  The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
noun:  The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
noun:  Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
noun:  (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.

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