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How to pronounce “defeat”
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Pronunciation guide for defeat
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of defeat with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
how these pathways to victory and defeat repeat across time.
- Definition summary
- (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce defeat
How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
how these pathways to victory and defeat repeat across time.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “defeat”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
- (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- (transitive) To nullify
- To prevent (something) from being achieved.
- [Noun]
- The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
- The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
- Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
- (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
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