(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 .
Outvote
Definition:
(v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.
Example Sentences:
(1) The vote marks only the third time since he became governor in 2003 that King has been outvoted and the first time that none of the Bank's internal MPC members have voted with their boss.
(2) The problem is political: though home ownership is falling for the first time since 1918 and is expected to keep falling, the 64% who do own vastly outvote the rest – and they want never-ending rises to pay off frighteningly high mortgages and provide everything else a family needs.
(3) Briefing journalists at his office in The Hague, Rutte made it plain that he was sympathetic to much of the British case, but said there were two big problems – freezing benefits for east Europeans and successfully negotiating a new deal that would protect Britain from being outvoted by the 19 countries that use the euro.
(4) Nobody will be outvoted.” Wednesday’s summit focused on “Fortress Europe” measures to try to stem the flow of refugees and migrants.
(5) Outgoing governor, Sir Mervyn King, was again outvoted, with a majority of policymakers leaving the QE programme at £375bn.
(6) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw Labour and the sole Liberal Democrat outvoting a Conservative bloc.
(7) In August, King and two other MPC members pushed for a bigger stimulus than the rest of the committee but were outvoted.
(8) But Murdoch's company adopted a more defensive tone in responding to the MPs' hostile description of its 81-year-old patriarch, noting that it considered the verdict "unjustified and highly partisan" because it was only agreed following a vote that saw five Labour MPs and the sole Liberal Democrat, Adrian Sanders, outvoting a Conservative bloc.
(9) Cameron's stop-Juncker campaign was further troubled when Merkel's anti-euro opponents, the AfD, were admitted to the Tory-led parliamentary grouping because the Conservatives were outvoted.
(10) There was talk of boycotts and threats to take the issue to court from the Czechs and Slovaks who were outvoted on Tuesday, while the EU’s most robust anti-immigration hardliner, Viktor Orban of Hungary, warned Chancellor Angela Merkel against any “moral imperialism” at the summit.
(11) The prime minister’s other key demands include giving non-eurozone members, such as the UK, protections to ensure they cannot be outvoted on the single market by eurozone members.
(12) Data passed to the Guardian shows that the Scottish Tories helped the Scottish National party outvote Labour in 40% of all the divisions during Salmond’s first term as first minister, from 2007 to 2011, when the SNP had a single-seat majority over Labour.
(13) The Czechs, Slovakians, Hungarians and Romanians are deeply indignant at being outvoted on one of the biggest, most toxic, issues in national politics in Europe.
(14) Markets were taken by surprise today when minutes of the latest meeting of the Bank's monetary policy committee showed that the governor, Mervyn King, had wanted to pump an extra £75bn into the financial system but was outvoted.
(15) But with 41% of shares held abroad and only 17% by pension funds, unseen forces outvote concerned shareholders at AGMs.
(16) Its Labour and Lib Dem members outvoted the Tories to include a line declaring Murdoch " not a fit and proper person" to run a major global company, and they have been squabbling ever since over who is to blame for their failure to come up with a conclusion upon which they could all agree.
(17) We are being outvoted ever more frequently,” Johnson wrote.
(18) The list, which is expected to be ratified before publication at a general meeting at 1.30pm on Friday, also called for: • An end to business and corporate block-votes in all council elections, which can be used to outvote local residents.
(19) In terms of pure equity, Mr Malone's company, Liberty Media, now holds 17% of News Corp, exceeding the Murdoch family's 14%, and if it chose to swap more of its stock for voting shares it could get to a point where it could outvote the Murdochs.
(20) Cue much handwaving by both Miles and Carney: It’s about this big..... 10.21am GMT Carney: outvoted over the output gap Carney then reveals that he would personally like to publish a measure of the output gap, but he couldn’t persuade the rest of the MPC.