Usually means: Overcomes opposition, wins against adversary.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. defeats: Merriam-Webster
  2. defeats: Collins English Dictionary
  3. defeats: Vocabulary.com
  4. Defeats, defeats: Wordnik
  5. defeats: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. defeats: Wiktionary
  7. defeats: Dictionary.com
  8. defeats: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Defeats: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. defeats: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. defeats: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. defeats: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defeats: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defeats: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (defeat)

verb:  (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
verb:  (transitive) To nullify
verb:  To prevent (something) from being achieved.
noun:  The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
noun:  The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.
noun:  Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
noun:  (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.
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