DEFEAT vs STYMIE: NOUN
- 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.
- The act of making null and void.
- The act of overcoming or frustrating the enforcement of.
- A coming to naught; frustration.
- The state of being defeated; failure to win.
- The act of defeating an opponent.
- The feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals
- An unsuccessful ending
- An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
- 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 of depriving a person of something expected, desired, or striven for, by some antagonistic action or influence.
- The act of defeating or being defeated.
- In golf-playing, a position in which a player has to putt for the hole with his opponent's ball directly in the line of his approach.
- A situation in golf in which an opponent's ball obstructs the line of play of one's own ball on the putting green.
- An obstacle or obstruction.
- A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green.
- A situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole
- A thwarting and distressing situation
- See stimy.
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: VERB
- To nullify; to reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
- To overcome in battle or contest.
- Win a victory over
- Thwart the passage of
- Hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
- To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To dishearten or dispirit.
- To make (an estate, for example) void; annul.
- To be beyond the comprehension of; mystify.
- To frustrate the enforcement of (a motion, for example).
- To prevent the success of; thwart.
- To do better than (another) in a competition or battle; win victory over; beat.
- To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.
- 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 an obstacle to; prevent the advancement or success of; thwart or stump.
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: 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 undo; do away with; deprive of vigor, prosperity, health, life, or value; ruin; destroy.
- [In the last extract there is perhaps an allusion to defeature, 2.]
- Specifically In law, to annul; render null and void: as, to defeat a title to an estate. See defeasance, 3.
- To deprive of something expected, desired, or striven for, by some antagonistic action or influence: applied to persons.
- To bring into the position of, or impede by, a stymie.
- The position of two balls on the putting green such that, being more than six inches apart, one ball lies directly between the other and the hole at which the latter must be played; also, the act of bringing the balls into this position.
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: RELATED WORDS
- Losing, Beat, Trounce, Loss, Rout, Setback, Win, Triumph, Victory, Vote down, Vote out, Kill, Licking, Frustration, Overcome
- Counteract, Inhibit, Hobble, Impede, Scuttle, Hamper, Frustrate, Derail, Thwart, Stymy, Blockade, Block, Embarrass, Obstruct, Hinder
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Humiliation, Losing, Beat, Trounce, Loss, Rout, Setback, Win, Triumph, Victory, Vote down, Kill, Licking, Frustration, Overcome
- Nullify, Counteract, Inhibit, Hobble, Impede, Scuttle, Hamper, Frustrate, Derail, Thwart, Blockade, Block, Embarrass, Obstruct, Hinder
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: 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.
- Stymie, a website that allows students to anonymously report harm.
- Premature correctness, often motivated by efficiency, can stymie that production.
- LAS VEGAS: Hackers are out to stymie your smartphone.
- Eastern Bloc countries and, in turn, stymie communist expansion.
- Thus, civil RICO lawsuits, if anything, stymie deliberative democracy.
- Not knowing the governmental sources could stymie them.
- And your job is to not stymie it.
- Guest Eric Schmitt on attempting to stymie St.
- State Bans On Hydraulic Fracturing Stymie American Prosperit.
- He feared internal resistance might stymie the transition.
DEFEAT vs STYMIE: 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?
- Do too many interest groups stymie the government from governing the country?
- Were the Swiss willing to go to stymie an invasion?
- Was devolution an attempt to stymie the demand for independence?
- Are Corcoran and Elliman weaponizing UCBA to stymie compass?