e.g. We could easily defeat the opposing team once we figured out their strategy.
e.g. Doing this would defeat the purpose of the exercise. They hoped to defeat his attempts to find evidence.
e.g. He accepted his defeat with good spirit.
e.g. She was bitter of the defeat that her suggestions had suffered.
"Fear defeats more people than anything in the world." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
lost to (someone or something)
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