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Princeton's WordNet

  1. defeated, discomfitedadjective

    people who are defeated

    "the Romans had no pity for the defeated"

  2. defeatedadjective

    beaten or overcome; not victorious

    "the defeated enemy"

  3. defeated, disappointed, discomfited, foiled, frustrated, thwartedadjective

    disappointingly unsuccessful

    "disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions"; "their foiled attempt to capture Calais"; "many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers"; "his best efforts were thwarted"

Wiktionary

  1. defeatedadjective

    subjugated, beaten, overcome

Wikipedia

  1. Defeated

    Defeated is the third and final single from American singer Anastacias fourth studio album, Heavy Rotation. The single was released in May 2009 as a promotional single only, without a music video or physical single release. The R&B song was released to European radio on March 23, 2009. The song was written by Anastacia, J. R. Rotem and Damon Sharpe, and produced by J. R. Rotem.

ChatGPT

  1. defeated

    Defeated refers to having been beaten or overcome in a contest, conflict, or competition. It can also mean thwarted or prevented from achieving a goal or intention. It can refer to a person, team, plan or scheme that has lost or failed. In a wider sense, it can also imply a state of feeling demoralized or dispirited due to a failure or loss.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Defeated

    of Defeat

Wikidata

  1. Defeated

    Defeated is an unincorporated community in Smith County, Tennessee, United States. Defeated was the site of a post office from 1824 until 1929. The post office had the name Montrose from 1824 through 1880, when the name was changed to Defeated.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of defeated in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of defeated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of defeated in a Sentence

  1. Abdalla Binrasali:

    The resistance was fierce and they were firing with everything they've got, mortars, rockets and rifles, they fear that if they lose more ground they will be defeated.

  2. Jeff King:

    Father Josiah Trenham said. The incident took place on April 12, some four months after a terror attack left 14 dead in nearby San Bernardino, and just over three months before a French priest was killed by ISIS-linked jihadists in his church. The events, whether far or near, underscore a grim new reality for pastors such as Father Josiah Trenham : Instead of offering sanctuary from evil, churches could in fact be attractive targets for terror. Many churches are now hiring self-defense instructors for classes or security guards that include off-duty police, said Ryan Mauro, a professor of Homeland Security at Liberty University and national security analyst for the Clarion Project. If you are an Islamist terrorist seeking self-glory, executing a priest will bring you more attention than executing an average civilian. While no lethal terror attacks have occurred inside a U.S. church to date, experts like Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, notes the threat tally is growing. I'm pretty sure there will be attacks in the future, until [ radical Islam is defeated ], we can expect Christians, including in the West, to rationally tighten security measures and try to protect themselves from attack. In February, Khial Abu-Rayyan, 21, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., was arrested after Khial Abu-Rayyan told an undercover The FBI agent Khial Abu-Rayyan was preparing to shoot up a major church near Khial Abu-Rayyan home on behalf of ISIS. A month earlier, the Rev. Roger Spradlin of Valley Baptist Church – one of the biggest congregations in Bakersfield, Calif. – told attendees that they had received a threat written in Arabic. Undercover officers were then placed during worship services.

  3. Martin Luther King, Jr.:

    I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

  4. Jonathan Greenblatt:

    But we will not be defeated, we will not stand down, we will not be intimidated.

  5. Sun-tzu:

    Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

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