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.
  •
  • conquest,
  • squash,
  • destruction,
  • debacle,
  • stop,
  • rebuff,
  • waterloo,
  • repulse,
  • butchery,
  • obstruct,
  • prevent,
  • fall,
  • stalemate,
  • setback,
  • prohibit,
  • extermination,
  • blow,
  • breakdown,
  • slaughter,
  • reverse,
  • avoid,
  • check,
  • withdrawal,
  • ruin,
  • victory,
  • avert,
  • massacre,
  • discourage,
  • trap,
  • annihilation,
  • ambush,
  • Vanquishment,
  • breakthrough.
  •
  • dud,
  • trimming,
  • plague,
  • throttle,
  • hiding,
  • knockout,
  • upset,
  • let down,
  • inhibit,
  • walloping,
  • count,
  • burden,
  • comedown,
  • success,
  • embarrass,
  • whipping,
  • disadvantage.
  •
  • ace,
  • subjugate,
  • trim,
  • prevail against,
  • appeasement,
  • pullout,
  • best,
  • surrender,
  • concession,
  • lick,
  • submission.
  •
  • balk,
  • thwart,
  • stymie,
  • stump,
  • cross,
  • frustrate,
  • baffle,
  • allow.
  •
  • 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)
  • embarrassment,
  • Defeasance,
  • fall,
  • check,
  • triumph,
  • shellacking,
  • reverse,
  • repulse,
  • Whitewashing,
  • blow,
  • Whaling,
  • ko,
  • count,
  • lacing,
  • conquest,
  • mastery,
  • subjugation,
  • Paddling,
  • ruin,
  • thrashing,
  • massacre,
  • ambush,
  • trimming,
  • killing,
  • Insuccess,
  • break,
  • discomfiture,
  • destruction,
  • trap,
  • setback,
  • drubbing,
  • waxing,
  • debacle,
  • slaughter,
  • breakdown,
  • nonsuccess,
  • failure,
  • annihilation,
  • rebuff,
  • Downthrow,
  • whipping,
  • collapse,
  • Vanquishment,
  • rout,
  • licking,
  • trouncing,
  • loss,
  • beating,
  • Trashing,
  • extermination,
  • Scalping.
  •ruin (noun)
  • ruin,
  • ruination,
  • undoing,
  • goose,
  • subversion.
  •victory (noun)
  • subjugation.

• v.

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

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, fail, blowout, accomplishment, cakewalk, runaway, sweep, win, go down, surrender, victory, go under, landslide, achievement, romp, success, walkover, triumph, walkaway.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    abet, accomplishment, achievement, advance, aid, allow, approve, assist, attainment, attract, blowout, boon, boost, bow, build, cakewalk, cave in, clarify, clear, clear up, collapse, conquest, construct, create, encourage, endorse, enlighten, explain, facilitate, fail, fall, fell, fix, float, flop, flunk, fold, forfeit, forward, free, give up, go down, go under, grow, increase, inspirit, landslide, let go, liberate, lose, pass, permit, promote, prove, push, release, romp, runaway, save, strengthen, subjugation, submit, success, succumb, support, surrender, sweep, triumph, validate, victory, walkaway, walkover, wash out, win, yield, yielding, lose to.

• 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.