Definition for Defeat:

• An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.

Synonyms for Defeat:

• n.

  •
  • loss,
  • smash,
  • disappointment.
  •
  • check,
  • avoid,
  • reverse,
  • trap,
  • avert,
  • Vanquishment,
  • rebuff,
  • squash,
  • prohibit,
  • breakdown,
  • annihilation,
  • ruin,
  • obstruct,
  • withdrawal,
  • waterloo,
  • ambush,
  • massacre,
  • prevent,
  • extermination,
  • stalemate,
  • slaughter,
  • stop,
  • blow,
  • setback,
  • repulse,
  • butchery,
  • destruction,
  • debacle,
  • discourage,
  • breakthrough.
  •
  • dud,
  • embarrass,
  • count,
  • hiding,
  • burden,
  • inhibit,
  • trimming,
  • comedown,
  • walloping,
  • plague,
  • upset,
  • let down,
  • disadvantage,
  • whipping,
  • throttle,
  • knockout.
  •
  • best,
  • subjugate,
  • ace,
  • prevail against,
  • concession,
  • submission,
  • trim,
  • appeasement,
  • lick,
  • pullout.
  •
  • cross,
  • balk,
  • baffle,
  • stump,
  • frustrate,
  • thwart,
  • stymie.
  •
  • Dusting.
  •defeat (noun)
  • beating,
  • licking,
  • failure,
  • frustration,
  • collapse,
  • overcome,
  • vote out,
  • downfall,
  • vote down.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • disillusionment,
  • setback,
  • fizzle,
  • non-success,
  • nonsuccess,
  • bafflement.
  •discomfiture (noun)
  • disconcertion.
  •event (noun)
  • licking.
  •failure (noun)
  • miscarriage,
  • nonfeasance,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • insolvency,
  • Unsuccess.
  •frustration (noun)
  • downfall,
  • foil,
  • thwarting,
  • disappointment,
  • reversal.
  •licking (noun)
  • licking.
  •loss (noun)
  • losses.
  •overthrow, beating (noun)
  • reverse,
  • Trashing,
  • drubbing,
  • discomfiture,
  • Scalping,
  • collapse,
  • count,
  • failure,
  • beating,
  • whipping,
  • annihilation,
  • trimming,
  • Insuccess,
  • licking,
  • setback,
  • check,
  • Whitewashing,
  • ruin,
  • trap,
  • Vanquishment,
  • ambush,
  • slaughter,
  • waxing,
  • blow,
  • thrashing,
  • ko,
  • debacle,
  • loss,
  • Defeasance,
  • destruction,
  • Downthrow,
  • shellacking,
  • massacre,
  • break,
  • breakdown,
  • extermination,
  • Whaling,
  • repulse,
  • embarrassment,
  • subjugation,
  • killing,
  • rout,
  • nonsuccess,
  • rebuff,
  • Paddling,
  • lacing,
  • trouncing.
  •ruin (noun)
  • ruin,
  • ruination,
  • undoing,
  • goose,
  • subversion.
  •victory (noun)
  • subjugation.

• v.

  •competition (verb)
  • overcome,
  • get the better of.
  •conquer in athletic contest (verb)
  • drop,
  • pulverize,
  • whomp,
  • whack,
  • floor,
  • thrash,
  • work over,
  • bust,
  • trounce,
  • zap,
  • plow under,
  • tan,
  • lambaste,
  • flax,
  • cream,
  • skin,
  • run roughshod over,
  • pommel,
  • pound,
  • outrun,
  • total,
  • outplay,
  • take,
  • flog,
  • take to cleaners,
  • steamroll,
  • outjump,
  • deck,
  • edge,
  • outhit,
  • clobber,
  • powder,
  • wallop,
  • take it all,
  • drub.
  •conquer in military manner (verb)
  • halt,
  • upset,
  • demolish,
  • discomfit,
  • suppress,
  • bear down,
  • crush,
  • sink,
  • smash,
  • torpedo,
  • subdue,
  • hinder,
  • mow down,
  • obliterate,
  • route,
  • parry,
  • beat,
  • outmaneuver,
  • finish off,
  • outflank,
  • prevail over,
  • lick,
  • sack,
  • bar,
  • scatter,
  • reduce,
  • trash,
  • roll back,
  • impede,
  • repress,
  • block,
  • wipe out,
  • shipwreck,
  • trample,
  • whip,
  • repel,
  • butcher,
  • overpower,
  • quell,
  • overrun,
  • surmount,
  • entrap,
  • decimate,
  • drown,
  • overthrow,
  • annihilate,
  • best,
  • subjugate,
  • overwhelm,
  • obstruct,
  • vanquish,
  • swamp.
  •defeat (verb)
  • master,
  • checkmate,
  • conquer,
  • humble,
  • trump,
  • outdo,
  • quietus,
  • subdue,
  • predominate,
  • overthrow,
  • trounce,
  • beat,
  • overturn,
  • subject,
  • overpower,
  • rout,
  • surmount,
  • capture,
  • foil,
  • crush,
  • vanquish,
  • trimming,
  • whip,
  • quell,
  • overcome,
  • outplay.
  •disprove (verb)
  • confute.
  •excel (verb)
  • outfight.
  •frustrate (verb)
  • counterplot,
  • nonplus,
  • thwart,
  • overturn,
  • baffle,
  • beat down,
  • disconcert,
  • neutralize,
  • bury,
  • refute,
  • outwit,
  • disappoint,
  • squash,
  • disprove,
  • take wind out of sails,
  • spoil,
  • cook,
  • balk,
  • nose out,
  • blank,
  • cause setback,
  • cross,
  • shave,
  • skunk,
  • throw for loop,
  • beat the system,
  • puzzle,
  • scuttle,
  • contravene,
  • nullify,
  • edge out,
  • undo,
  • put end to,
  • confound,
  • cast down,
  • victimize,
  • shellac,
  • stump,
  • checkmate,
  • circumvent,
  • invalidate.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Vanquishment,
  • slaughter,
  • outwork,
  • overrun,
  • outfox,
  • polish off,
  • demolition,
  • destroy,
  • outgun,
  • demolish,
  • dominate,
  • quash,
  • wallop,
  • prevail,
  • eliminate,
  • disappointment,
  • pulverize,
  • drub,
  • suppression,
  • Mauling,
  • Dusting,
  • shellacking,
  • trample,
  • outrun,
  • disarm,
  • whitewash,
  • revenge,
  • outperform,
  • edge out.
  •
  • balk,
  • clobber,
  • beat out,
  • devastate,
  • Pasting,
  • edge,
  • stymie,
  • hiding,
  • outshine,
  • reduce,
  • annihilate,
  • thwart,
  • dethrone,
  • hammer,
  • elimination,
  • baffle,
  • steamroll,
  • flatten.
  •
  • confound,
  • skunk,
  • massacre,
  • cream,
  • show up,
  • wear down,
  • scalp,
  • skin,
  • blitz,
  • whipping,
  • pullout,
  • upset,
  • stump,
  • nose out,
  • break down.
  •
  • bury,
  • smash,
  • get,
  • lick,
  • cast down,
  • squash,
  • throw,
  • draw,
  • submission.
  •
  • check.
  •
  • concession,
  • trim.
  •
  • cross.
  •bypass
  • outflank.
  •catastrophe
  • disaster.
  •chase away
  • flight.
  •counteract
  • Counterwork.
  •countermove
  • checkmate.
  •crush
  • suppress.
  •deceive
  • outwit.
  •defy
  • spurn.
  •destroy
  • pulverize,
  • smite,
  • do for,
  • obliterate,
  • wrack.
  •drub
  • spank,
  • trounce.
  •frustration
  • discomfiture,
  • frustration.
  •hinder
  • baffle.
  •impede
  • hinder.
  •kill
  • killing,
  • murder,
  • kill,
  • slaughter.
  •obliterate
  • finish off,
  • wash out.
  •outflank
  • outplay.
  •outguess
  • outsmart,
  • outthink.
  •outmaneuver
  • outflank,
  • trump.
  •outsmart
  • outfox.
  •outwit
  • outsmart,
  • outthink,
  • outmaneuver.
  •overturn
  • subvert.
  •overwhelm
  • outvote.
  •prevent
  • frustrate.
  •rebuff
  • repulse.
  •rebuke
  • slap down.
  •repulse
  • fight off.
  •reversal
  • comedown.
  •ruin
  • pauperize,
  • lay waste.
  •set back
  • set back.
  •steamroll
  • steamroller.
  •stymie
  • snooker.
  •thrash
  • drub,
  • work over.
  •thresh
  • thresh.
  •worst
  • best.
  •Other relevant words:
  • death,
  • hiding,
  • silence,
  • breakup,
  • wear out,
  • put to flight,
  • obliterate,
  • run roughshod over,
  • deficiency,
  • suppression,
  • tear,
  • taking,
  • let down,
  • annihilate,
  • dash one's hope,
  • puny,
  • work over,
  • trample,
  • burden,
  • top,
  • oust,
  • calamity,
  • dismissal,
  • outshine,
  • wrack,
  • charge,
  • debilitate,
  • cripple,
  • nonaccomplishment,
  • bar,
  • floor,
  • give the brush,
  • dispersal,
  • take it all,
  • despoil,
  • drubbing,
  • destruction,
  • mow down,
  • veto,
  • fiasco,
  • annihilation,
  • insolvency,
  • override,
  • anew,
  • misfortune,
  • avoid,
  • derange,
  • refuse,
  • vote out,
  • more,
  • blast,
  • cold shoulder,
  • whipping,
  • countervail,
  • get the best,
  • cheat,
  • toss off,
  • then,
  • cap,
  • end,
  • block,
  • hors de combat,
  • answer conclusively,
  • murder,
  • debacle,
  • confute,
  • Whaling,
  • flight,
  • lay bare,
  • snooker,
  • bruise,
  • nonachievement,
  • destroy,
  • shatter,
  • finish off,
  • refusal,
  • humiliation,
  • plague,
  • Trashing,
  • halt,
  • carry the day,
  • freeze out,
  • rebuff,
  • entrap,
  • maraud,
  • drink down,
  • cross,
  • paltry,
  • have,
  • zap,
  • yet,
  • demolition,
  • counter,
  • stop,
  • unsuccessfulness,
  • throw down,
  • ruination,
  • balking,
  • lambaste,
  • discouragement,
  • finish,
  • discomfiture,
  • wipe out,
  • lather,
  • cancel,
  • tire,
  • defy,
  • downcast,
  • dashed hope,
  • terminate,
  • lacing,
  • outthink,
  • Overset,
  • clip wings,
  • setback,
  • discountenance,
  • subvert,
  • mirage,
  • switch,
  • nonstarter,
  • do in,
  • fatigue,
  • brush,
  • licking,
  • rejection,
  • overtake,
  • subjugation,
  • throw,
  • retreat,
  • shoot,
  • fight off,
  • ouster,
  • prevent,
  • dismiss,
  • crash,
  • tan,
  • disturb,
  • weaken,
  • decay,
  • suppress,
  • sap,
  • appeasement,
  • havoc,
  • stymie,
  • balk,
  • depress,
  • outclass,
  • bastinado,
  • sack,
  • prohibit,
  • overbear,
  • extermination,
  • demolish,
  • enervate,
  • controvert,
  • whack,
  • lambasting,
  • crushing,
  • furthermore,
  • draw,
  • outgeneral,
  • spank,
  • overreach,
  • outfight,
  • bewilder,
  • squash,
  • show the door,
  • cut the ground from under,
  • essential,
  • refute,
  • clobber,
  • kill,
  • dumbfound,
  • cleanup,
  • miscarriage,
  • sweep over,
  • lick,
  • withdrawal,
  • outperform,
  • play one false,
  • whomp,
  • get over,
  • disrupt,
  • spurn,
  • beat out,
  • rise above,
  • Deposing,
  • wiping out,
  • ruin,
  • settle,
  • trouncing,
  • outjump,
  • devastation,
  • vote against,
  • repress,
  • failing,
  • washout,
  • slaughter,
  • Nonsuit,
  • quietus,
  • quiet,
  • soft,
  • check,
  • embarrass,
  • butcher,
  • challenge,
  • breakdown,
  • forlorn hope,
  • humiliate,
  • Insuccess,
  • squelch,
  • cudgel,
  • skunk,
  • neutralise,
  • bowl over,
  • toppling,
  • hinder,
  • decimate,
  • thwarting,
  • Overmatch,
  • pound,
  • catastrophe,
  • unhorse,
  • outsail,
  • subversion,
  • blitz,
  • seizure,
  • ride roughshod over,
  • supreme,
  • repudiate,
  • steamroll,
  • waterloo,
  • disappoint,
  • Deathblow,
  • knockout,
  • powder,
  • confusion,
  • flax,
  • thrive,
  • hide,
  • mangle,
  • letdown,
  • expose,
  • harry,
  • Subduing,
  • dash,
  • beat down,
  • attack,
  • Scalping,
  • upsetting,
  • contravene,
  • wallop,
  • elude,
  • blow,
  • Feeze,
  • nonfeasance,
  • quash,
  • be due,
  • losses,
  • repeatedly,
  • back,
  • undermine,
  • devastate,
  • Subdual,
  • drain,
  • thrashing,
  • elimination,
  • defeated,
  • down,
  • impede,
  • hold up,
  • pauperize,
  • capitulation,
  • debasement,
  • unseating,
  • plunder,
  • lambast,
  • stifle,
  • flummox,
  • Dumfound,
  • undo,
  • fell,
  • goose,
  • reverse,
  • contemptible,
  • outwork,
  • drown,
  • reject,
  • outmaneuver,
  • bummer,
  • muted,
  • bury,
  • frustrate,
  • scourge,
  • comedown,
  • answer,
  • hitch,
  • route,
  • Redargue,
  • hammer,
  • surpass,
  • tame,
  • get,
  • beating,
  • thresh,
  • walloping,
  • flatten,
  • dissatisfy,
  • outflank,
  • do for,
  • pulverize,
  • gum up,
  • vandalize,
  • edge out,
  • scuttle,
  • repulse,
  • obstruct,
  • dispirit,
  • relapse,
  • scatter,
  • cropper,
  • scotch,
  • ousting,
  • perplex,
  • jilt,
  • butchery,
  • whacking,
  • repel,
  • stonewall,
  • do away with,
  • gravel,
  • shipwreck,
  • Counterwork,
  • roll back,
  • invalidate,
  • injure,
  • turn thumbs down,
  • shellac,
  • screw up,
  • fizzle,
  • bankruptcy,
  • enfeeble,
  • degradation,
  • frustration,
  • land,
  • damp,
  • basic,
  • Defeasance,
  • deck,
  • pop,
  • cream,
  • dissuade,
  • swamp,
  • bafflement,
  • countermand,
  • tease,
  • dud,
  • take to cleaners,
  • discourage,
  • prevail against,
  • repudiation,
  • total,
  • cleaning,
  • take,
  • set back,
  • bear the palm,
  • surviving,
  • break down,
  • wash out,
  • scalp,
  • eliminate,
  • dishearten,
  • concession,
  • confront,
  • excel,
  • throw over,
  • disarm,
  • negative,
  • discomfit,
  • decline,
  • disillusionment,
  • make mincemeat of,
  • show up,
  • thrash,
  • bugger up,
  • exhaust,
  • slight,
  • little,
  • upset,
  • bilk,
  • Dusting,
  • blank,
  • deny,
  • Downthrow,
  • smother,
  • castigate,
  • outwit,
  • ambush,
  • Whitewashing,
  • warming,
  • knock,
  • demoralize,
  • Unsuccess,
  • abasement,
  • disgrace,
  • parry,
  • stump,
  • knock over,
  • disconfirm,
  • pre-empt,
  • whelm,
  • unseat,
  • subjection,
  • outvote,
  • whitewash,
  • unsettle,
  • counterplot,
  • break,
  • Feaze,
  • disillusion,
  • bolt down,
  • trouble,
  • breakthrough,
  • dethrone,
  • foiling,
  • shut up,
  • waiver,
  • throw for loop,
  • put end to,
  • strain,
  • vicissitude,
  • blighted hope,
  • circumvent,
  • again,
  • insignificant,
  • waxing,
  • throttle,
  • blanket,
  • adversity,
  • wear down,
  • mishap,
  • hindrance,
  • tantalise,
  • puzzle,
  • outrun,
  • subdued,
  • liquidate,
  • outstrip,
  • victimize,
  • Paddling,
  • subjugate,
  • confound,
  • slap down,
  • bring down,
  • ravage,
  • topple,
  • upend,
  • trimming,
  • exceed,
  • get the better of,
  • devitalize,
  • cast down,
  • trifling,
  • fundamental,
  • inhibit,
  • reduce,
  • descent,
  • dispose of,
  • buck,
  • shave,
  • trash,
  • Unsatisfaction,
  • miserable,
  • belabor,
  • hamper,
  • Tantalization,
  • submission,
  • count,
  • Quashing,
  • transcend,
  • pommel,
  • uselessness,
  • reversal,
  • counteract,
  • dull,
  • tantalize,
  • ignore,
  • weigh down,
  • disconcert,
  • abortion,
  • Successlessness,
  • mismanagement,
  • contradict,
  • send to Coventry,
  • strip,
  • take the cake,
  • nose out,
  • mock,
  • loss,
  • obstruction,
  • euchre,
  • stagger,
  • stamp out,
  • miscarry,
  • demoralise,
  • mutilate,
  • explode,
  • kayo,
  • forestall,
  • smite,
  • embarrassment,
  • rebuke,
  • prostrate,
  • prevail over,
  • best,
  • nullify,
  • interfere with,
  • dish,
  • revenge,
  • skin alive,
  • baulk,
  • dissolve,
  • discombobulate,
  • belt down,
  • storm,
  • prevail,
  • shoot-down,
  • skin,
  • dissolution,
  • daunt,
  • nonsuccess,
  • beat the system,
  • snub,
  • hamstring,
  • get the best of,
  • overmaster,
  • difficulty,
  • lay waste,
  • outsmart,
  • trivial,
  • Vanquishment,
  • disconcertion,
  • trim,
  • cut,
  • Pasting,
  • impediment,
  • broken,
  • put-down,
  • triumph over,
  • lump,
  • bust,
  • ramshackle,
  • confounding,
  • offset,
  • ace,
  • Mauling,
  • shellacking,
  • plow under,
  • brush off,
  • outpoint,
  • Overturning,
  • cook,
  • domination,
  • outweigh,
  • take wind out of sails,
  • futility,
  • disprove,
  • avert,
  • nonplus,
  • buffet,
  • disadvantage,
  • faze,
  • dissatisfaction,
  • eradicate,
  • put,
  • rebut,
  • spike,
  • outgun,
  • baffle,
  • non-success,
  • polish off,
  • argue down,
  • flog,
  • undoing,
  • outhit,
  • batter,
  • win over,
  • pullout,
  • plastering,
  • delay,
  • hiccup,
  • brave,
  • sabotage,
  • oppress,
  • depose,
  • dominate,
  • inconsiderable,
  • pillage,
  • disaster,
  • pour down,
  • disappointment,
  • outfox,
  • strike,
  • shame,
  • cause setback,
  • chastise,
  • spoil,
  • disintegration,
  • trap,
  • problem,
  • drop,
  • clobbering,
  • overwhelm,
  • edge,
  • dilapidated,
  • mar,
  • exterminate,
  • go someone one better,
  • ko,
  • liquidation,
  • smash,
  • stalemate,
  • overtax,
  • torpedo,
  • neutralize,
  • drive away,
  • sink,
  • muffled,
  • abject,
  • invade,
  • succeed,
  • be victorious,
  • vote down,
  • drub,
  • Non-fulfilment,
  • worst,
  • overrun,
  • abolish,
  • misadventure,
  • denial,
  • mortification,
  • clinch an argument,
  • steamroller,
  • have the best,
  • killing,
  • thwart,
  • massacre,
  • bear down.

Antonyms for Defeat:

• n.

  • event
    victory.
  • frustration
    conquest, triumph, boost.
  • overthrow, beating
    attainment, surrender, accomplishment, yielding, boon, victory, win, achievement, mastery, success.
  • Other antonyms:
    fall, sweep, walkover, runaway, go down, blowout, cakewalk, fail, landslide, romp, walkaway, go under, surrender.

• v.

  • conquer in athletic contest
    forfeit.
  • conquer in military manner
    float, encourage, aid, strengthen, clear, open, construct, advance, yield, liberate, fail, help, grow, let go, increase, inspirit, lose, release, abet, support, assist, build, attract, give up, allow, push, forward, facilitate, save, permit, fix, create, promote, free.
  • frustrate
    clear up, validate, prove, explain, endorse, enlighten, clarify, approve.

Homophones for Defeat:

• debate, deft, divide, deputy, daft, davit, debut, defeated, day by day, devoid, depute, debt, dipodidae, deep-dye, DVD, diabeta, deathbed, david, depot, day bed, dubiety, debit, devoted, devout, defat, doubt, deviate, devote, deaf-aid, depth, doped, divided, duvet, deadbeat dad, daybed, divot, devotee, dipped, dead body, deadbeat, deep-eyed.