| defeat | | |
| n. (event) | 1. defeat, licking | an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest.; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking" |
| ~ conclusion, ending, finish | event whose occurrence ends something.; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" |
| ~ failure | an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose.; "the surprise party was a complete failure" |
| ~ heartbreaker | a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute. |
| ~ lurch | a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage). |
| ~ rout | an overwhelming defeat. |
| ~ shutout, skunk | a defeat in a game where one side fails to score. |
| ~ drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, slaughter, whipping, debacle | a sound defeat. |
| ~ waterloo | a final crushing defeat.; "he met his waterloo" |
| ~ whitewash | a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. defeat, frustration | the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals. |
| ~ disappointment, letdown | a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized.; "his hopes were so high he was doomed to disappointment" |
| v. (competition) | 3. defeat, get the better of, overcome | win a victory over.; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" |
| ~ demolish, destroy | defeat soundly.; "The home team demolished the visitors" |
| ~ beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell | come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" |
| ~ wallop | defeat soundly and utterly.; "We'll wallop them!" |
| ~ down | bring down or defeat (an opponent). |
| ~ overrun | seize the position of and defeat.; "the Crusaders overran much of the Holy Land" |
| ~ skunk, lurch | defeat by a lurch. |
| ~ rout, expel, rout out | cause to flee.; "rout out the fighters from their caves" |
| ~ upset | defeat suddenly and unexpectedly.; "The foreign team upset the local team" |
| ~ nose | defeat by a narrow margin. |
| ~ conquer | overcome by conquest.; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country" |
| ~ make it, pull round, pull through, survive, come through | continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).; "He survived the cancer against all odds" |
| v. (social) | 4. defeat, kill, shoot down, vote down, vote out | thwart the passage of.; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal" |
| ~ negative, veto, blackball | vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent.; "The President vetoed the bill" |
| lose | | |
| v. (possession) | 1. lose | fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense.; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat" |
| ~ white-out, whiteout | lose daylight visibility in heavy fog, snow, or rain. |
| ~ sleep off | get rid of by sleeping.; "sleep off a hangover" |
| v. (competition) | 2. lose | fail to win.; "We lost the battle but we won the war" |
| ~ compete, vie, contend | compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others. |
| ~ go down | be defeated.; "If America goes down, the free world will go down, too" |
| ~ drop | lose (a game).; "The Giants dropped 11 of their first 13" |
| ~ remain down, take the count | be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten. |
| ~ drop one's serve | lose a game in which one is serving. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. lose | suffer the loss of a person through death or removal.; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her" |
| ~ suffer | experience (emotional) pain.; "Every time her husband gets drunk, she suffers" |
| v. (contact) | 4. lose, mislay, misplace | place (something) where one cannot find it again.; "I misplaced my eyeglasses" |
| ~ lay, place, put, set, position, pose | put into a certain place or abstract location.; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" |
| v. (possession) | 5. lose | miss from one's possessions; lose sight of.; "I've lost my glasses again!" |
| ~ forget, leave | leave behind unintentionally.; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors" |
| v. (perception) | 6. lose | allow to go out of sight.; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light" |
| v. (possession) | 7. lose, turn a loss | fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit.; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year" |
| v. (possession) | 8. lose | fail to get or obtain.; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad" |
| v. (competition) | 9. drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose, recede | retreat. |
| ~ retrogress, regress, retrograde | get worse or fall back to a previous condition. |
| v. (perception) | 10. lose, miss | fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind.; "I missed that remark"; "She missed his point"; "We lost part of what he said" |
| ~ overlook | look past, fail to notice. |
| v. (change) | 11. lose, suffer | be set at a disadvantage.; "This author really suffers in translation" |
| ~ decline, worsen | grow worse.; "Conditions in the slum worsened" |
| ~ suffer | get worse.; "His grades suffered" |
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