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To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. |
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To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as
hope; to deprive, as of an estate. |
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To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse,
or ruin by victory; to overthrow. |
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To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault. |
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An undoing or annulling; destruction. |
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Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of
success; as, the defeat of a plan or design. |
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An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle;
repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory. |