defeated 的 2 个定义
- to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- to frustrate; thwart.
- to eliminate or deprive of something expected: The early returns defeated his hopes of election.
- Law. to annul.
- the act of overcoming in a contest: an overwhelming defeat of all opposition.
- an instance of defeat; setback: He considered his defeat a personal affront.
- an overthrow or overturning; vanquishment: the defeat of a government.
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defeated 近义词
beaten
更多defeated例句
- During the first debate, the president waffled on whether he would concede defeat, falling back on his go-to line about the fraudulent — and unfounded — dangers of mail voting.
- If you’ve forgotten the details, Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 that it had installed “defeat devices” in millions of its diesel-powered cars.
- “Progressive may win Newt Gingrich’s seat, handing Trumpism a major defeat,” was the headline on the article by Larry Rubin, a contributor to People’s World.
- Yet, as the votes were counted and Macron was declared the winner, Le Pen conceded defeat, allowing for a peaceful transition.
- The closed-door negotiations between Pelosi and Mnuchin stood in contrast to public finger-pointing by both sides Thursday that appeared almost to forecast defeat and preemptively assign blame.
- 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.