defeat

柯林斯词典

1. V-T If you defeat someone, you win a victory over them in a battle, game, or contest. 擊敗
His guerrillas defeated the colonial army in 1954. 他的遊擊隊在1954年打敗了殖民軍。
2. V-T If a proposal or motion in a debate is defeated, more people vote against it than for it. (以多數票) 挫敗[usu passive]
The bill was defeated with support from only two congressmen. 由於衹得到兩位議員的支持，那個議案被否決了。
3. V-T If a task or a problem defeats you, it is so difficult that you cannot do it or solve it. 難倒
The book he most wanted to write was the one which nearly defeated him. 他最想寫的書恰恰是幾乎難倒他的那一本。
4. V-T To defeat an action or plan means to cause it to fail. 使受挫
The navy played a limited but significant role in defeating the rebellion. 在平息叛亂中海軍起了有限但卻重要的作用。
5. N-VAR Defeat is the experience of being beaten in a battle, game, or contest, or of failing to achieve what you wanted to. 失敗
The most important thing is not to admit defeat until you really have to. 最重要的事就是非到不得已不要認輸。
...the Sonics' 31-point defeat at Sacramento on Sunday. …超音速隊周日在薩尅拉門托31分的挫敗。

The French were defeated at Waterloo in 1815.
The team were overwhelmingly defeated in yesterday's game .
The North defeated the South in the American Civil War.
The bill was defeated in the Commons by 249 votes to 131.
The four-times champion was unexpectedly defeated in the second round of the competition .