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Prevarication :: Prevarication (n.) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.

Overwar :: Overwar (v. t.) To defeat.

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

Victor :: Victor (n.) The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of..

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat..

Perempt :: Perempt (v. t.) To destroy; to defeat.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) To conquer; to defeat, as in a contest or game; to beat; to surpass..

Defeasance :: Defeasance (n.) A defeat; an overthrow.

Thwart :: Thwart (v. t.) To cross, as a purpose; to oppose; to run counter to; to contravene; hence, to frustrate or defeat..

Lose :: Lose (v. i.) To suffer loss, disadvantage, or defeat; to be worse off, esp. as the result of any kind of contest..

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

Rout :: Rout (n.) The state of being disorganized and thrown into confusion; -- said especially of an army defeated, broken in pieces, and put to flight in disorder or panic; also, the act of defeating and breaking up an army; as, the rout of the enemy was complete..

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse..

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

Defeat :: Defeat (v.) Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design..

Disappoint :: Disappoint (v. t.) To defeat of expectation or hope; to hinder from the attainment of that which was expected, hoped, or desired; to balk; as, a man is disappointed of his hopes or expectations, or his hopes, desires, intentions, expectations, or plans are disappointed; a bad season disappoints the farmer of his crops; a defeat disappoints an enemy of his spoil..

Profligation :: Profligation (n.) Defeat; rout; overthrow.

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

Fling :: Fling (v. t.) To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate; hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation..

Sustain :: Sustain (v. t.) To endure without failing or yielding; to bear up under; as, to sustain defeat and disappointment..

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