Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“defeats” is a form of

defeat

UK /dɪˈfiːt/ · US /dɪˈfit/ verb, noun

Forms defeats defeating defeated defeatest defeatedst defeateth

  1. verb (transitive) To overcome in battle or contest. “Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.”
  2. verb (transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  3. verb (transitive) To nullify
  4. verb To prevent (something) from being achieved.
  5. noun The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss. “Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.”
  6. noun The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing. “The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.”
  7. noun Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (law) nullification.
  8. noun (obsolete) Destruction, ruin.

Synonyms

vanquish overcome beat bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast eat someone's lunch flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox outguess outrun outsmart outwit overpower overwin licking frustration get the better of kill shoot down vote down vote out

Antonyms

bite the dust capitulate eat someone's dust forfeit give up lose strike one's flag surrender relinquish wave the white flag yield victory

Etymology

From Middle English defeten, from Middle English defet (“disfigured”, past participle) and defet (“defect”, noun), see Etymology 2 below.

From Middle English defet, from French deffet, desfait, past participle of the verb desfaire (compare modern French défaire), from des- + faire.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To undo; to disfigure; to destroy. [Obs.]
  2. verb To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.
  3. noun An undoing or annulling; destruction. [Obs.]
  4. noun Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

Etymology [From F. défait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe défaire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis- + facere to do. See Feat, Fact, and cf. Disfashion.]

Etymology [Cf. F. défaite, fr. défaire. See Defeat, v.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “defeat”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “defeat” (best matches first).

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