Defeat vs. Victory

Defeatverb

(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.

Defeatverb

(transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

Defeatverb

(transitive) To nullify

Defeatnoun

The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.

Defeatnoun

The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

Defeatnoun

Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (legal) nullification.

Defeatnoun

(obsolete) Destruction, ruin.

Defeatverb

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

Defeatverb

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.

Defeatverb

To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

Defeatverb

To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.

Defeatnoun

An undoing or annulling; destruction.

Defeatnoun

Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

Defeatnoun

An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; - opposed to victory.

Defeatnoun

an unsuccessful ending

Defeatnoun

the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

Defeatverb

win a victory over;

Defeatverb

thwart the passage of;

Defeatverb

win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat

Defeatverb

prevent (someone) from achieving an aim

Defeatverb

prevent (an aim) from being achieved

Defeatverb

reject or block (a motion or proposal)

Defeatverb

be impossible for (someone) to understand

Defeatverb

render null and void; annul.

Defeatnoun

an instance of defeating or being defeated

Victorynoun

(countable) An instance of having won a competition or battle or succeeded in an effort.

Victorynoun

(uncountable) The condition of having succeeded in a conflict or other effort.

Victorynoun

(countable) A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See Winged victory.

Victoryverb

(rare) To achieve a victory

Victorynoun

The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; - the opposite of defeat.

Victorynoun

a successful ending of a struggle or contest;

Victory

The term victory (from Latin victoria) originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign is considered a strategic victory, while the success in a military engagement is a tactical victory.