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defeated

[ dih-fee-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

relating to or being the loser in a contest, election, battle, etc.; overcome or vanquished:
For several days in succession, fragments of the defeated army straggled through the town.
frustrated, foiled, or thwarted, as plans, dreams, etc.:
He could not shake off a feeling of acute disappointment, of defeated hopes.

First recorded in 1575–85; defeat ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; defeat ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.

And yet Dempsey and others have repeatedly said ISIS cannot be defeated militarily.

He won re-election twice as governor of New York, and had the hubris to run for a fourth term before being defeated in 1994.

Many parents have been defeated in their efforts to get help from child welfare departments.

Yet even as the Germans wallowed in bitter self-pity, another defeated superpower underwent a dramatic turnaround.

It was under his auspices that the battle of Lepanto was fought, in which the Turks were so signally defeated.

He was at length defeated in battle, when 7,000 of his followers were slain and himself captured.

Take counsel together, and it shall be defeated: speak a word, and it shall not be done: because God is with us.

Battle of Surcoign; British defeated by the French after a sanguinary conflict.

Battle of Wakefield; the forces of Charles I defeated by the parliamentary troops.

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