DEFEAT vs FAILURE: NOUN
- An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
- The act of defeating or being defeated.
- An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.
- Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success.
- An undoing or annulling; destruction.
- The act or result of overcoming in a contest, viewed with reference to the person overcome; overthrow; vanquishment; rout: as, to inflict a severe defeat upon the enemy.
- In law, the act of annulling, or of rendering null and void; annulment: as, the defeat of a title.
- An undoing; ruin; destruction.
- An unsuccessful ending
- The act of defeating an opponent.
- The state of being defeated; failure to win.
- A coming to naught; frustration.
- The act of overcoming or frustrating the enforcement of.
- The act of making null and void.
- The act of depriving a person of something expected, desired, or striven for, by some antagonistic action or influence.
- The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- A person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
- An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose
- An act that fails
- An unexpected omission
- Loss of ability to function normally
- Omission; non-performance: as, the failure of a promise or an engagement.
- Decay, or defect from decay: as, the failure of memory or of sight.
- The act of failing, or the state of having failed to accomplish a purpose or attain an object; want of success: as, the failures of life.
- Neglect.
- Miscarriage.
- Failure, Insolvency, Bankruptcy, Suspension. “Insolvency is a state; failure, an act flowing out of that state; and bankruptcy, an effect of that act” (Crabb). A bank may be insolvent—that is, unable to pay all its debts—without there being a public knowledge of the fact; it is a just law that makes it a criminal offense for a bank officer to receive deposits when he knows his bank to be insolvent. Failure is the popular and common name indicating the cessation of business on account of insolvency, especially if produced by the actual lack of money to meet some demand. Bankruptcy is often in popular use the same as insolvency, but it is more often used of the legal state of those who have surrendered their property to their creditors on account of their insolvency, or of the proceedings in connection therewith: as, he is going through bankruptcy. Suspension, or stoppage of payment, is in the nature of temporary failure, depending upon temporary disabilities not necessarily involving insolvency. Upon converting assets into money or getting an extension of credit, one who has suspended may be able to resume business. Insolvency and bankruptcy, in the legal sense, continue, in respect to past obligations, until the insolvent or bankrupt is formally discharged by the courts.
- A failing; deficiency; default; cessation of supply or total defect: as, the failure of springs or streams; failure of crops.
- Omission; nonperformance.
- Want of success; the state of having failed.
- Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration.
- A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment.
- A failing; a slight fault.
- State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
- An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
- Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.
- Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency
- Lack of success
- Inability to discharge all your debts as they come due
- The condition or fact of not achieving the desired end or ends.
- The condition of becoming bankrupt by reason of insolvency; confession of insolvency; a becoming insolvent or bankrupt: as, the failure of a merchant or a bank.
- The condition or fact of being insufficient or falling short.
- A cessation of proper functioning or performance.
- Nonperformance of what is requested or expected; omission.
- The act or fact of failing to pass a course, test, or assignment.
- A decline in strength or effectiveness.
- The act or fact of becoming bankrupt or insolvent.
- One that fails.
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: VERB
- To nullify; to reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- Win a victory over
- Thwart the passage of
- To overcome in battle or contest.
- N/A
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- To do better than (another) in a competition or battle; win victory over; beat.
- To prevent the success of; thwart.
- To frustrate the enforcement of (a motion, for example).
- To make (an estate, for example) void; annul.
- To dishearten or dispirit.
- To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
- To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
- To resist with success.
- To be beyond the comprehension of; mystify.
- N/A
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Synonyms Beat, Overpower, Overwhelm, Defeat, Discomfit, Rout, Overthrow, conquer. Beat is a general, somewhat indefinite, but vigorous word, covering the others. Overpower and overwhelm are the least discreditable to the one that loses in the struggle; overpower is least permanent in its effects. To overpower is to overcome by superiority of strength or numbers, but the disadvantage may be changed by the arrival of reinforcements. To overwhelm is to bear down utterly, to sweep clear away by superior strength. Defeat is to overcome or get the better of in some kind of contest, and implies less discredit, but generally greater disaster, to the defeated party than beat: as, that army is considered beaten which withdraws from the field. Defeat implies a serious disadvantage, because it applies more often to large numbers engaged. Discomfit has fallen into comparative disuse, except in its secondary sense of foiling, etc.; in that it expresses a comparatively complete and mortifying defeat. Rout is to defeat and drive off the field in confusion. Overthrow is the most decisive and final of these words; it naturally applies only to great persons, concerns, armies, etc. See conquer.
- To overcome in a contest of any kind, as a battle, fight, game, debate, competition, or election; vanquish; conquer; overthrow; rout; beat: as, to defeat an army; to defeat an opposing candidate; to defeat one's opponent at chess.
- To frustrate; prevent the success of; make of no effect; thwart: applied to things.
- To deprive of something expected, desired, or striven for, by some antagonistic action or influence: applied to persons.
- Specifically In law, to annul; render null and void: as, to defeat a title to an estate. See defeasance, 3.
- [In the last extract there is perhaps an allusion to defeature, 2.]
- To undo; do away with; deprive of vigor, prosperity, health, life, or value; ruin; destroy.
- A person with a record of failing
- Someone who loses consistently
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: RELATED WORDS
- Losing, Beat, Trounce, Loss, Rout, Setback, Win, Triumph, Victory, Vote down, Vote out, Kill, Licking, Frustration, Overcome
- Reluctance, Inadequacy, Malfunctioning, Insufficient, Incompetence, Refusal, Fails, Unwillingness, Fail, Failed, Inability, Failing, Unsuccessful person, Nonstarter, Loser
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Humiliation, Losing, Beat, Trounce, Loss, Rout, Setback, Win, Triumph, Victory, Vote down, Kill, Licking, Frustration, Overcome
- Deficiencies, Faulty, Lack, Reluctance, Inadequacy, Malfunctioning, Insufficient, Incompetence, Refusal, Unwillingness, Failed, Inability, Failing, Nonstarter, Loser
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- You will in effect defeat their screwy system.
- Do not attempt to defeat this safety feature.
- Thus, the Nazis are able to defeat the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, while Japan is able to defeat the United States.
- To defeat them, hit the question switch to change their colors, then defeat them to get the trophy.
- The vanquished was buried in history, only to be remembered as a lesson to posterity, his defeat considered the defeat of his unjust cause.
- Besides, humans share a recent common ancestor with gorillas, and conceding defeat for the silverback gorilla would mean conceding defeat for all of humanity.
- Security against defeat implies defensive tactics; ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive.
- Must defeat empress of light during day time, to defeat her avoid getting hit as she will one shot anyone.
- The defeat of healthcare was a huge defeat.
- Many of our generals met defeat after defeat.
- The failure to keep alive the contract theory was own failure.
- Misrepresentations, shoddy work, failure to have required licenses, failure to perform.
- Charges: FAILURE TO APPEAR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CONDITION OF SUSP.
- So those are the failure to pay and failure to file.
- Omission or failure to perform a legal duty; failure to meet an obligation when due.
- Procedures for establishing that a failure to file or failure to comply was not willful.
- Heat, cooling, server or network gear failure, or power failure, bankruptcy, etc.
- Ballast electronics failure is a somewhat random process that follows the standard failure profile for any electronic device.
- Failure to failure was substantially justified or other circumstances make an award of expenses unjust.
- Mechanical Failure Equipment failure typically occurs when devices exceed designed capacity or are inadequately maintained.
DEFEAT vs FAILURE: QUESTIONS
- Could Ronan defeat Thanos without the Infinity Gem?
- What happens to Gaspard after you defeat florianne?
- How did Fidel Castro defeat the Batista government?
- Which two empires did Chandragupta defeat and conquer?
- Did Russia invade Afghanistan to defeat terrorists?
- How to defeat biometric finger scanning technology?
- Why are Shrewsbury investigating after Anfield defeat?
- How did Cuauhtemoc defeat the Spanish conquistadors?
- Did Chandragupta Maurya defeat Alexander the Great?
- Does religious disagreement defeat secular beliefs?
- What happened to total failure Inc in total failure?
- How are failure frequencies for piping failure frequencies derived?
- Why is misfire a critical failure and not a failure?
- Is diastolic heart failure the same as right heart failure?
- What is the meaning behind the album Failure by failure?
- What is failure to capture and failure to pace on EKG?
- What are the symptoms of heart failure in heart failure patients?
- What is the meaning of failure to prepare and failure to plan?
- Do children with mastery-oriented response to failure verbalize attributions for their failure?
- Is policy failure from oppositional failure a success?