DEFEAT

Definitions

1. 1. An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.] Upon whose property and most dear life A damned defeat was made. Shak.
2. 2. Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.
3. 3. An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; -- opposed to victory.