Definition of Defeat

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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

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
Zig Ziglar

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

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin

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.

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Napoleon Hill

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Norman Vincent Peale

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.
John F. Kennedy

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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