Meaning Of Defeat

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. t.

To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
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.