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defeat

noun as in frustration

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His defeat six months later was virtually assured in that moment.

It’s a trade opponents are willing to make, because treating Hill like any other receiver, even any other very good receiver, is inviting defeat.

They’ll win the Pac-12 North with defeats of California and Washington the next two weeks, and probably go to the Fiesta Bowl if they win the league.

Philadelphia responded to that defeat by firing Coach Brett Brown and replacing him with Doc Rivers, who was let go by the Los Angeles Clippers.

Many classified the incident as a catastrophic defeat for the government, but the analysis from the Mexico Violence Resource Project suggests a more nuanced interpretation of the impact of those events.

He rebuffed calls to institute the death penalty, and his last term as governor ended in his defeat.

After the defeat of ISIS in Sinjar, most other locals have been left wondering who might rule the city in the near future.

That defeat was driven largely by Romney losing women voters by an insurmountable 11 points.

In recent days, there has been a subtle feeling of defeat permeating through the camp.

But it certainly contributed, and purposely so, to the defeat of the tough Likud hardliner Yitzhak Shamir in 1992.

He saw Gen. Braddock as he passed on to his defeat, and could give a succinct account of that sanguinary action.

The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

He will tell you about the success he had in America; it quite makes up for the defeat of the British army in the Revolution.

But after the defeat at Leipzig King Joachim asked and obtained leave to return to his own dominions.

But she had experienced an hour of mixed emotions in which a confused and wondering sense of defeat was paramount.

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On this page you'll find 429 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to defeat, such as: beating, blow, breakdown, collapse, debacle, and destruction.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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