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Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To defeat completely; to terminate; to thwart.

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Defeated :: Defeated (imp. & p. p.) of Defea.

Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow..

Frustrate :: Frustrate (v. t.) To bring to nothing; to prevent from attaining a purpose; to disappoint; to defeat; to baffle; as, to frustrate a plan, design, or attempt; to frustrate the will or purpose..

Chappion :: Chappion (n.) One who by defeating all rivals, has obtained an acknowledged supremacy in any branch of athetics or game of skill, and is ready to contend with any rival; as, the champion of England..

Foil :: Foil (n.) Failure of success when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.

Retreat :: Retreat (v. i.) To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; to withdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field..

Defeating :: Defeating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defea.

Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..

Euchre :: Euchre (v. t.) To defeat, in a game of euchre, the side that named the trump..

Defeat :: Defeat (v.) An undoing or annulling; destruction.

Overthrow :: Overthrow (v. t.) To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy.

Vacate :: Vacate (v. t.) To defeat; to put an end to.

Checkmate :: Checkmate (v. t.) To check (an adversary's king) in such a manner that escape in impossible; to defeat (an adversary) by putting his king in check from which there is no escape.

Outvote :: Outvote (v. t.) To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc..

Peremption :: Peremption (n.) A quashing; a defeating.

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To undertake a thing falsely and deceitfully, with the purpose of defeating or destroying it..

Defeat :: Defeat (v. t.) To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault..

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