Synonym: overcome, triumph, win. Antonym: victory. Similar words: feather, defend, feature, defense, defender, defendant, defensive, deference. Meaning: [dɪ'fiːt] 
n. 1. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest 2. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. v. 1. win a victory over 2. thwart the passage of.
n. 1. an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest 2. the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. v. 1. win a victory over 2. thwart the passage of. 
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31. Our defeat may be the preface to our successor's victory.
32. A person's character isn't determined by how he or she enjoys victory, but rather how he or she endures defeat.
33. The party are dreading a repeat performance of their defeat in the last election.
34. Unable to defeat him by logical discussion, she fell back on her old habit of criticizing his speech.
35. After a year without defeat, the team now reigns supreme as the finest in the country.
36. After several attempts to untie the knot, I admitted defeat and cut through it with a knife.
37. Why don't you just admit defeat and let someone else try?
38. He survived as party leader until his second election defeat.
39. She was a woman who hated to admit defeat .
40. They ran riot through the town after the defeat of their team.
41. In a last-ditch attempt to save his party from electoral defeat,[www.Sentencedict.com] he resigned from the leadership.
42. The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action .
43. Tomorrow we shall battle with our old enemies and defeat them.
44. He has not yet learned how to be gracious in defeat.
45. The team suffered a shock defeat in the first round.
46. A s he was not reconciled to his defeat,he was determined to try again in the next contest.
47. They are desperate to erase the memory of that last defeat in Cardiff.
48. The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
49. His defeat in the world championship led to a long period of gloomy introspection.
50. England's defeat in the third test match was sadly predictable.
51. A strong woman will cry, but will not admit defeat.
52. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
53. Mr Wallace tries to co-opt rather than defeat his critics.
54. I can accept defeat but could not accept to give up .
55. The coach tried to analyse the cause of our defeat.
56. In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
57. Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
58. In a desperate attempt to stave off defeat, he reluctantly promised wholesale reform of the constitution.
59. Our goal is to unite the opposition parties and defeat the President.
60. Defeat left her tearful, pale and drained.
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