defeat
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(noun) an unsuccessful ending |
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Synonyms: licking |
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Related Words: conclusion, debacle, discomfit, discomfiture, drubbing, ending, rout, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, waterloo, whipping |
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Antonyms: victory |
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| 2. |
(verb) win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "She conquered here fear of mice"; "He overcame his infirmity" |
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Synonyms: overcome |
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Related Words: beat, beat out, come through, conquer, crush, demolish, destroy, down, expel, get over, get the best, have the best, lurch, make it, master, nose, overcome, pull through, rout, rout out, skunk, subdue, surmount, survive, swim, trounce, upset, vanquish, wallop |
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(verb) thwart the passage of; "kill a motion" |
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Synonyms: kill, vote down, vote out |
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Related Words: blackball, negative, veto |
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(noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals |
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Synonyms: frustration |
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Related Words: disappointment, letdown |
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