defeat: translation
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noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ complete, comprehensive (esp. BrE), decisive, heavy, major, overwhelming, resounding, serious, stunning, total
▪ Their party suffered a heavy defeat in the election.
▪ bitter, catastrophic, crushing, devastating, disastrous, embarrassing, humiliating, ignominious (formal)
▪ The battle ended in a humiliating defeat.
▪ narrow
▪ They lost 4–3 in their second narrow defeat of the week.
▪ consecutive, successive
▪ final, ultimate
▪ election, electoral, political
▪ military
VERB + DEFEAT
▪ accept, admit, concede
▪ She is very determined, and will never admit defeat.
▪ The prime minister conceded defeat and resigned.
▪ face
▪ experience, suffer
▪ go down to, slump to (both BrE, sports)
▪ The team went down to their fifth consecutive defeat.
▪ reverse (BrE)
▪ A good politician can always reverse any defeats.
▪ avoid
▪ We just need to avoid defeat in our last two games.
▪ inflict
▪ The army inflicted a heavy defeat on rebel forces.
▪ end in
▪ lead to
PREPOSITION
▪ defeat against
▪ last week's crushing defeat against their rivals
▪ defeat by
▪ their defeat by the Brazilians
PHRASES
▪ defeat at the hands of sb
▪ The team suffered defeat at the hands of their oldest rivals.
▪ turn defeat into a victory
▪ They turned a military defeat into a media victory.
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verb
ADVERB
▪ comprehensively (BrE), convincingly (esp.BrE), decisively, easily, handily (AmE), heavily (BrE), overwhelmingly, roundly, soundly, thoroughly
▪ The English were decisively defeated by the rebels in the battle that followed.
▪ The senator was decisively defeated by his rivals.
▪ completely, totally
▪ militarily
▪ He said it was impossible to defeat the terrorists militarily.
▪ narrowly
▪ Our team was narrowly defeated in the final.
▪ eventually, finally, ultimately
PREPOSITION
▪ by
▪ The motion was defeated by 20 votes to 18.
Defeat is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑army
Defeat is used with these nouns as the object: ↑amendment, ↑army, ↑bill, ↑challenger, ↑champion, ↑communism, ↑enemy, ↑evil, ↑fleet, ↑foe, ↑initiative, ↑measure, ↑menace, ↑military, ↑monster, ↑motion, ↑opponent, ↑purpose, ↑rebel, ↑regime, ↑rival, ↑terror, ↑terrorism, ↑tyranny