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  1. defeated, discomfitedadjective

    people who are defeated

    "the Romans had no pity for the defeated"

    Synonyms:
    discomfited

    Antonyms:
    unbowed, triumphant, unbeaten, unconquered, undefeated, unvanquished, successful, victorious

  2. defeatedadjective

    beaten or overcome; not victorious

    "the defeated enemy"

    Synonyms:
    thwarted, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated

    Antonyms:
    successful, undefeated, unbowed, unconquered, unbeaten, unvanquished, victorious, triumphant

  3. defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwartedadjective

    disappointingly unsuccessful

    "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

    Synonyms:
    thwarted, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated

    Antonyms:
    successful, unbeaten, unconquered, undefeated, unbowed, triumphant, victorious, unvanquished

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How to use defeated in a sentence?

  1. Norman Tebbit:

    He( Martin McGuinness.Look) did have an important role in the peace negotiations but that was not because he had changed his mind, he was aware that the Army intelligence services had infiltrated the Army Council right up at the top of the Army Council and that Army Council was defeated.

  2. Napoleon Bonaparte:

    Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  3. Oleksiy Arestovych:

    Our military is succeeding there -- yesterday they defeated another attempt at an armored breakthrough in Mariupol, took prisoners of war, but for this the Russians are wiping the city out.

  4. Beto ORourke:

    This country was willing to sacrifice men and women, all over the United States, to make sure that we defeated Germany and that we won that war and for the following 75 years that we made this world safe for democracy, the Green New Deal calls that sacrifice and service and scale of commitment to mind when it talks about the challenges that we face today.

  5. Judson Mitcham:

    I don't see how anyone could fail to be troubled and moved by the stockade, with its deadlines, escape tunnels and Providence Spring, that subtext of such clean, well-kept grounds is chaos and human limitation, and I can't walk across the stockade field without feeling challenged and defeated by its awful irony. Even the sky looks different from there.


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