defeat

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. countable,uncountable
    — Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
  2. The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing. countable,uncountable
    — The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.
  3. Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification. countable,uncountable
    — ... is subsequently issued to him, in accordance with his perfect equity thus acquired, by a legal fiction which the law creates for the protection, but not for the defeat, of his title.
  4. Destruction, ruin. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — and made defeat of her virginity
动词 v.
  1. To overcome in battle or contest. transitive
    — Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
  2. To reduce, to nothing, the strength of. transitive
    — He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
  3. To nullify transitive
    — The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.
  4. To prevent (something) from being achieved.
    — The last active L.Y.R. 0-6-0ST (apart from works shunters), No. 51408, has been moved from Bolton to Agecroft for use in New Bailey Yard, Salford, where a sharp 1 in 27 curve is said to have defeated all attempts so far to employ diesel shunters; an ex-L.Y.R. 0-4-0ST also works here.

词形变化

defeats present,singular,third-person defeating participle,present defeated participle,past defeated past no-table-tags table-tags glossary inflection-template defeat infinitive defeat first-person,present,singular defeated first-person,past,singular defeat present,second-person,singular defeatest archaic,present,second-person,singular defeated past,second-person,singular defeatedst archaic,past,second-person,singular defeats present,singular,third-person defeateth archaic,present,singular,third-person defeated past,singular,third-person defeat plural,present defeated past,plural defeat present,subjunctive defeated past,subjunctive defeat imperative,present - imperative,past defeating participle,present defeated participle,past defeats plural

词汇关系

近义词
vanquish overcome beat bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast eat someone's lunch flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox outguess outrun outsmart outwit overpower overwin own pulverise pwn rape reduce spank steal the show subdue subvert surmount thrash trounce
反义词
bite the dust capitulate eat someone's dust forfeit give up lose strike one's flag surrender relinquish wave the white flag yield victory
下位词
conquer rout crush cream shutout zilch discomfit get over get past get through overrun overthrow win over
衍生词
defeatable defeatingly defeat the purpose redefeat self-defeating undefeatability undefeatable admit defeat defeatican defeatless defeatocrat snatch defeat from the jaws of victory snatch victory from the jaws of defeat social defeat
相关词
defeasance defeasible defeater defeatism defeatist defeature

词源

词源 1
From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.
词源 2
From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.
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