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  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  defeat
Part of Speech:  noun
Definition:  The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated.
Synonyms:  beating, drubbing, overthrow, rout, thrashing, vanquishment
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  defeat
Part of Speech:  noun
Synonyms:  bouleversement, debacle, defeasance, disappointment, discomfiture, downfall, failure, foil, frustration, labefaction, overthrow, repulse, rout, subjugation, vanquishment, waterloo
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  defeat
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition.
Synonyms:  beat, best, conquer, master, overcome, prevail against, rout, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph over, vanquish, worst
Idioms:  carry, get, get, go someone one better
  Synonym Collection v1.1
Main Entry:  defeat
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  annihilate, baffle, balk, beat, best, break, check, checkmate, conquer, crucify, crush, decimate, defeasance, deprive, destroy, devastate, disappoint, discomfit, eclipse, excel, floor, foil, frustrate, lick, loss, master, nullify, outperform, outplay, outshine, outwit, overcome, overpower, overreach, overthrow, overwhelm, prevail, pulverize, quell, repulse, reverse, rout, route, ruin, setback, shellac, subdue, subjugate, surmount, surpass, thwack, triumph, trounce, undo, vanquish
  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus
Main Entry:  frustrate
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To prevent from accomplishing a purpose.
Synonyms:  baffle, balk, check, checkmate, foil, stymie, thwart
Idioms:  cut the ground from under

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Cite This Source   Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary.
Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 
Cite This Source   Synonym Collection v1.1
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