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de-feat
noun as in knock
noun as in landslide
Weak matches
noun as in loss
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in miscarriage
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in rebuff
noun as in repulse
noun as in reverse
noun as in ruin
Strong matches
noun as in setback
noun as in undoing
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- bane
- blight
- blow
- blunder
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- collapse
- curse
- defeat
- destroyer
- difficulty
- disgrace
- doom
- error
- failure
- fault
- flaw
- fumble
- grief
- humiliation
- misadventure
- mischance
- mishap
- misstep
- omission
- overthrow
- overturn
- reversal
- reverse
- ruin
- ruination
- shame
- slip
- smash
- stumble
- subversion
- trial
- trip
- trouble
- visitation
- weakness
- wreck
Weak matches
noun as in upset
noun as in victory
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in beating
Strong matches
noun as in subversion
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in suppression
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in insolvency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in licking
noun as in misplacement
Strong matches
- accident
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
Weak matches
noun as in nonfeasance
Strong matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- fiasco
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- neglect
- nonperformance
- omission
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
noun as in ruination
Strong matches
noun as in thrashing
noun as in unsuccess
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccessfulness
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccessfulness
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccess
- washout
- wreck
noun as in comedown
noun as in coup de grâce
noun as in debacle
noun as in defeat
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in defeat
noun as in disappointment
Strong matches
noun as in disappointment
Strongest matches
noun as in disaster
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in discomfiture
noun as in failure
Strong matches
noun as in finish
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in frustration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in kill
verb as in mock
verb as in murder
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in neutralize
verb as in obliterate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in outdo
Strongest matches
verb as in outflank
verb as in outfox
verb as in outwit/outsmart
Weak matches
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end-run
- fake out
- finagle
- fox
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- lead astray
- make a fool of
- make a monkey of
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- pull a fast one on
- put one over on
- run circles around
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
verb as in overpower
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in overwhelm
verb as in prostrate
verb as in pulverize
verb as in put down
verb as in rebut
verb as in repulse
verb as in baffle
verb as in ruin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in balk
verb as in set back
verb as in show up
verb as in slaughter
verb as in stymie
Strong matches
verb as in subdue
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in subvert
verb as in surmount
verb as in thrash
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in thwart
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in undo
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in veto
verb as in outwit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in outshine
verb as in checkmate
verb as in outstrip
verb as in override
verb as in smite
verb as in outsmart
verb as in outthink
verb as in pauperize
verb as in thresh
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in confute
verb as in counteract
verb as in crush
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
verb as in defy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in demolish
Strongest matches
verb as in drub
verb as in eliminate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in floor
verb as in foil
Strong matches
verb as in frustrate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in get
noun as in knock
noun as in landslide
Weak matches
noun as in loss
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in miscarriage
Strong matches
Weak match
noun as in rebuff
noun as in repulse
noun as in reverse
noun as in ruin
Strong matches
noun as in setback
noun as in undoing
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- bane
- blight
- blow
- blunder
- calamity
- casualty
- catastrophe
- collapse
- curse
- defeat
- destroyer
- difficulty
- disgrace
- doom
- error
- failure
- fault
- flaw
- fumble
- grief
- humiliation
- misadventure
- mischance
- mishap
- misstep
- omission
- overthrow
- overturn
- reversal
- reverse
- ruin
- ruination
- shame
- slip
- smash
- stumble
- subversion
- trial
- trip
- trouble
- visitation
- weakness
- wreck
Weak matches
noun as in upset
noun as in victory
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in beating
Strong matches
noun as in subversion
Strongest match
Strong matches
noun as in suppression
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Weak matches
noun as in insolvency
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in licking
noun as in misplacement
Strong matches
- accident
- bereavement
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- cost
- damage
- death
- debit
- debt
- defeat
- deficiency
- depletion
- deprivation
- destitution
- destruction
- detriment
- disadvantage
- disappearance
- disaster
- dispossession
- failure
- fall
- fatality
- forfeiture
- harm
- hurt
- impairment
- injury
- misadventure
- mishap
- need
- perdition
- privation
- retardation
- ruin
- sacrifice
- shrinkage
- squandering
- trial
- trouble
- undoing
- want
- waste
- wreckage
Weak matches
noun as in nonfeasance
Strong matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- default
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- delinquency
- dereliction
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- fiasco
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- neglect
- nonperformance
- omission
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- stalemate
- stoppage
- turkey
- washout
- wreck
noun as in ruination
Strong matches
noun as in thrashing
noun as in unsuccess
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccessfulness
- washout
- wreck
noun as in unsuccessfulness
Weak matches
- abortion
- bankruptcy
- bomb
- botch
- breakdown
- bungle
- bust
- checkmate
- collapse
- decay
- decline
- defeat
- deficiency
- deficit
- deterioration
- downfall
- failing
- false step
- faux pas
- fiasco
- flash in the pan
- flop
- frustration
- implosion
- inadequacy
- lead balloon
- lemon
- loser
- loss
- mess
- misadventure
- miscarriage
- misstep
- nonperformance
- nonsuccess
- overthrow
- rout
- rupture
- sinking ship
- stalemate
- stoppage
- total loss
- turkey
- unsuccess
- washout
- wreck
noun as in comedown
noun as in coup de grâce
noun as in debacle
noun as in defeat
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in defeat
noun as in disappointment
Strong matches
noun as in disappointment
Strongest matches
noun as in disaster
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in discomfiture
noun as in failure
Strong matches
noun as in finish
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in frustration
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in kill
verb as in mock
verb as in murder
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in neutralize
verb as in obliterate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in outdo
Strongest matches
verb as in outflank
verb as in outfox
verb as in outwit/outsmart
Weak matches
- baffle
- bamboozle
- beat
- bewilder
- cap
- cheat
- circumvent
- con
- confuse
- deceive
- defeat
- defraud
- dupe
- end-run
- fake out
- finagle
- fox
- gull
- have
- hoax
- hoodwink
- lead astray
- make a fool of
- make a monkey of
- mislead
- outdo
- outfox
- outgeneral
- outguess
- outjockey
- outmaneuver
- outthink
- overreach
- pull a fast one on
- put one over on
- run circles around
- swindle
- take in
- top
- trick
- worst
verb as in overpower
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in overwhelm
verb as in prostrate
verb as in pulverize
verb as in put down
verb as in rebut
verb as in repulse
verb as in baffle
verb as in ruin
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in balk
verb as in set back
verb as in show up
verb as in slaughter
verb as in stymie
Strong matches
verb as in subdue
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in subvert
verb as in surmount
verb as in thrash
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in thwart
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in undo
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in veto
verb as in outwit
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in outshine
verb as in checkmate
verb as in outstrip
verb as in override
verb as in smite
verb as in outsmart
verb as in outthink
verb as in pauperize
verb as in thresh
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in confute
verb as in counteract
verb as in crush
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
Weak matches
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
verb as in defeat
Strong matches
verb as in defy
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in demolish
Strongest matches
verb as in drub
verb as in eliminate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in floor
verb as in foil
Strong matches
verb as in frustrate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
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The fight which he took part in as aide-de-camp, and which had so sad an end, goes by the name of Brad-dock's de-feat.
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On this page you'll find 3901 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to de feat, such as: blame, censure, condemnation, defeat, failure, and flak.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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