defeat

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To overcome in battle or contest.

   “Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.”

2. fiil To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

   “He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.”

3. fiil To nullify

   “The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.”

4. fiil 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.”

5. isim The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

   “Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.”

6. isim The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.

   “The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.”

7. isim Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.

   “... 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.”

8. isim Destruction, ruin.

   “and made defeat of her virginity”