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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, dusting, licking, rout, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| Main Entry: | debacle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | catastrophe |
| Synonyms: | beating, blue ruin, breakdown, collapse, crack-up, crash, defeasance, defeat, devastation, disaster, dissolution, downfall, drubbing, failure, fiasco, havoc, licking, overthrow, reversal, rout, ruin, ruination, shellacking, smash, smashup, trouncing, vanquishment, washout, wreck |
| Antonyms: | boon, miracle, wonder |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rout |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overwhelming defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, clobbering, comedown, confusion, debacle, disaster, drubbing, embarrassment, flight, hiding, overthrow, retreat, romp, ruin, shambles, shutout, thrashing, trashing, upset, vanquishment, walkover, washout, waxing, whipping |
| Notes: | a rout is a disorderly crowd of people or an overwhelming defeat; a root is the usually underground organ of a plant that lacks buds or leaves or nodes and absorbs water and mineral salts - or the form of a word after all affixes are removed; a route is an established line of travel or access - or a road, course, or way for travel from one place to another |
| Main Entry: | waterloo |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | final defeat, total defeat |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, beating, collapse, conquest, crushing defeat, drubbing, failure, fall, licking, massacre, overthrow, rout, shellacking, slaughter, thrashing, trashing, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whipping, whitewashing |
| Main Entry: | beating |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thrashing |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, bashing, defeat, drubbing, rout, shellacking, slaughter, trouncing, whipping |
| Antonyms: | triumph, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | threshing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beating |
| Synonyms: | drubbing, flogging, thrashing, trouncing, whipping |
| Main Entry: | trimming |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, drubbing, flogging, licking, rout, thrashing, whipping |
| Antonyms: | achievement, success, triumph, victory |
| Main Entry: | dusting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | beating, drubbing, licking, rout, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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