Defeat
To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.
An undoing or annulling; destruction.
Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
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Defeat Quotations
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
Man is not made for defeat.
Ernest Hemingway
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
Ernest Hemingway
Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
Ernest Hemingway
Defeat Translations
defeat in Afrikaans is verslaan
defeat in Danish is besejre, nederlag
defeat in Dutch is nederlaag
defeat in Finnish is voittaa
defeat in German is vernichten, besiegen, Niederlage
defeat in Italian is sconfitta, vincere
defeat in Latin is evinco, fundo
defeat in Norwegian is nederlag
defeat in Portuguese is derrota
defeat in Spanish is derrota, vencer
defeat in Swedish is nederlag
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