(v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
(v. t.) To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
(v. t.) To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
(v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
(v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.
(v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
(v.) An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
Example Sentences:
(1) This defeat, though, is hardly a good calling card for the main job.
(2) To confront this evil – and defeat it, standing together for our values, for our security, for our prosperity.” Merkel gave a strong endorsement of Cameron’s reform strategy, saying that Britain’s demands were “not just understandable, but worthy of support”.
(3) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(4) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(5) Different games, different moments but it is very important to start winning our points at home.” City started their title defence by defeating Newcastle United 2-0.
(6) Instead of inevitable defeat there is uncertain cop-out.
(7) Long-term: The defeat of Isis is a political shaping exercise – you find moderate Sunni leaders, empower and install them in Syria and Iraq.
(8) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.
(9) A foretaste of discontent came when Florian Thauvin, the underachieving £13m winger signed from Marseille last summer , was serenaded with chants of ‘You’re not fit to wear the shirt” from away fans during Saturday’s FA Cup defeat at Watford .
(10) Hagan’s defeat came as a shock and a heavy blow for the Democratic party in North Carolina, a purple state that now has no Democratic senator or governor for the first time in 30 years.
(11) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(12) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(13) The Liverpool manager was incensed by Lee Mason's performance at the Etihad Stadium on Boxing Day, when a 2-1 defeat cost his team the Premier League leadership and Raheem Sterling had a first half goal disallowed for an incorrect offside call.
(14) Following a run which included eight straight draws in the Premier League and a 3-0 defeat at Tottenham last Wednesday, Mubarak had reached the conclusion that Hughes and his coaching staff were not realising the potential of the players City had assembled.
(15) Southampton, with injuries and defeats to consider, were left licking their wounds.
(16) Three million of us are behind our team!” trumpets La Republica, who hail “the national team's exemplary behaviour so far, both individually and collectively.” Naturally they were saying exactly the same thing after the defeat to Costa Rica.
(17) However since the night of our defeat last week I have been subject to the added level of pressure that comes with being a leadership candidate.
(18) Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian A journey that started five years ago with a promise to bring Labour together – to avoid the civil strife that traditionally followed election defeat – risks ending where it began: contemplating electoral wilderness.
(19) Despite a lack of traditional campaign organization, a mix of big rallies and constant appearances on cable news helped Trump defeat what had been described as the strongest field in Republican history.
(20) "The title race is over but that changes nothing as we should do our best from now until the end of the season," the Italian said before explaining why he did not speak to the media after the 2-0 defeat at Everton in City's previous game .
Outplay
Definition:
(v. t.) To excel or defeat in a game; to play better than; as, to be outplayed in tennis or ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) The promising world No72 was comprehensively outplayed in the second set and regularly looked to her coaches in frustration.
(2) Football Weekly Extra: City through, Arsenal out, and the biggest Tyne-Wear derby for decades Read more Chelsea and Arsenal were outplayed by superior teams in the knockout rounds.
(3) Southampton must be optimistic for the rest of the season too, after nervelessly outplaying Liverpool on their own turf.
(4) But we are now faced with a fight to reach that objective and feel a change is necessary to maximise the opportunity presented by the final 13 games.” Leicester City’s triumph: the inside story of an extraordinary season | Stuart James Read more Ranieri was informed of the decision on his return from the club’s Champions League last-16 tie against Sevilla when, to put Leicester’s season into context, the champions of England came back from Spain seemingly happy with a 2-1 defeat in which they were largely outplayed.
(5) You can be sure that Murray won't tire, even if he is outplayed.
(6) After beating the Ghana team that had eliminated them from each of the past two World Cups, they followed up on Sunday by outplaying a Portugal side that – despite some notable injury problems – still had the Fifa World Player of the Year at its disposal.
(7) We were totally outplayed and England deserved all three points.
(8) The Spurs defender Toby Alderweireld, who was one of just four players to retain his place from last weekend’s Premier League draw against Arsenal, admitted they had been outplayed.
(9) Manchester United had been outplayed, it was plain to see and for the losing manager the ordeal was so great, the jolt so shuddering, there have been times since when it has felt like he has wanted to shut it out of his life.
(10) Prior to that Italy simply found themselves outplayed by younger and pacier opponents.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 1.47am GMT Real Salt Lake I was at the stadium when Real Salt Lake outshot, outplayed and generally bombarded D.C. United in the Open Cup final in September, only to watch their opponents score with the one chance they had, and their own efforts seemingly defy the laws of physics in staying out.
(12) Watching Robert Pires dribbling his way out of trouble in his own penalty area late in the game, it was possible to reflect that Arsenal did not just play United off the park, they outplayed them in all areas of the park.
(13) Belief began to flicker and, when a Hitzlsperger free-kick was headed across the face of the Wigan goal by James Tomkins and bundled in by Ba,, who finished amid the netting, it flared, fuelled by news from St Andrew's, where Birmingham City, who would have relegated West Ham with a point, were being hopelessly outplayed by Fulham.
(14) Yet Peterborough are a side capable of winning any one-off tie at this level, as they proved when they lifted the Johnstone's Paint Trophy in March despite having been outplayed for large spells of the game by Chesterfield of League Two.
(15) Madrid were outplayed in Rafa Benítez’s first clásico as coach – a clásico in which he fielded a side that did not feel much like his own.
(16) Against Ghana, he made four saves to help the USA win despite being outplayed.
(17) Ultimately, however, United were comprehensively outplayed and fortunate it was not a more punishing result.
(18) Outplayed, they were complacent and missed the rested Paul Scholes.
(19) They do it to teams week in, week out, outplaying them and beating them.
(20) Instead Wigan outthought and outplayed a Manchester City side who were sluggish, out of synch and reckless, no one more so than Pablo Zabaleta, who joined Kevin Moran and José Antonio Reyes in being the only players to be sent off in an FA Cup final.