Definition of defeat

"defeat" in the noun sense

1. defeat, licking

an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

"it was a narrow defeat"

"the army's only defeat"

"they suffered a convincing licking"

2. frustration, defeat

the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

"defeat" in the verb sense

1. get the better of, overcome, defeat

win a victory over

"You must overcome all difficulties"

"defeat your enemies"

"He overcame his shyness"

"He overcame his infirmity"

"Her anger got the better of her and she blew up"

2. kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out

thwart the passage of

"kill a motion"

"he shot down the student's proposal"

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Quotations for defeat

There is a defeat that is useful. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Defeat may be victory in disguise. [ Longfellow ]

Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Sifting Of Peter ]

Not in the clamor of the crowded street.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong. [ Ward Beecher ]

Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better. [ Wendell Phillips ]

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined will of a peasant. [ Confucius ]

Liberty knows nothing but victories. Soldiers call Bunker Hill a defeat; but liberty dates from it though Warren lay dead on the field. [ Wendell Phillips ]

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exert herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes, that she may have another by a defeat. [ Colton ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]

defeat in Scrabble®

The word defeat is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters defeat:

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defeat in Words With Friends™

The word defeat is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters defeat:

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Words within the letters of defeat

2 letter words in defeat (5 words)

3 letter words in defeat (12 words)

4 letter words in defeat (12 words)

5 letter words in defeat (2 words)

6 letter words in defeat (1 word)

defeat + 1 blank (6 words)

Word Growth involving defeat

Shorter words in defeat

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Longer words containing defeat

defeated redefeated

defeated selfdefeated

defeated undefeated undefeatedly

defeater defeaters selfdefeaters

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