defeated

de·feat  (d-ft)

tr.v. de·feat·ed, de·feat·ing, de·feats

1. To win victory over; beat.

2. To prevent the success of; thwart: Internal strife defeats the purpose of teamwork.

3. Law To make void; annul.

n.

1. The act of defeating or state of being defeated.

2. Failure to win.

3. A coming to naught; frustration: the defeat of a lifelong dream.

4. Law The act of making null and void.

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[Middle English defeten, from defet, disfigured, from Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire, to destroy, from Medieval Latin disfacere, to destroy, mutilate, undo : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin facere, to do; see dh- in Indo-European roots.]

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de·feater n.

Synonyms: defeat, conquer, vanquish, beat, rout¹, subdue, subjugate, overcome
These verbs mean to triumph over an adversary. Defeat is the most general: "Whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same" Thomas Paine.
Conquer suggests decisive and often wide-scale victory: "The Franks . . . having conquered the Gauls, established the kingdom which has taken its name from them" Alexander Hamilton.
Vanquish emphasizes total mastery: Napoleon's forces were vanquished at Waterloo.
Beat is similar to defeat, though less formal and often more emphatic: "To win battles . . . you beat the soul . . . of the enemy man" George S. Patton.
Rout implies complete victory followed by the disorderly flight of the defeated force: The enemy was routed in the first battle.
Subdue suggests mastery and control achieved by overpowering: "It cost [the Romans] two great wars, and three great battles, to subdue that little kingdom [Macedonia]" Adam Smith.
Subjugate more strongly implies reducing an opponent to submission: "The last foreigner to subjugate England was a Norman duke in the Middle Ages named William" Stanley Meisler.
To overcome is to prevail over, often by persevering: He overcame his injury after months of physical therapy.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	defeated - people who are defeated; "the Romans had no pity for the defeated" discomfited people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
Adj.	1.	defeated - beaten or overcome; not victorious; "the defeated enemy" unsuccessful - not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome undefeated - victorious; "undefeated in battle"; "an undefeated team"
	2.	defeated - disappointingly unsuccessful; "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted" disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwarted unsuccessful - not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome

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defeated

adjective beaten, crushed, conquered, worsted, routed, overcome, overwhelmed, thrashed, licked (informal) thwarted, overpowered, balked, trounced, vanquished, checkmated, bested << OPPOSITE victorious