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"defeat" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it when referring to a loss or a failure, and also in the context of warfare, sports, or other competitions. For example, "The team suffered a devastating defeat in the final match of the tournament."
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Defeat
verb
To overcome in battle or contest.
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"Let us assure you that the Government will do all we can to defeat the voices of division, but ultimately the challenges of integration and radicalisation cannot be solved from Whitehall alone.
A Labour source said that, given teenagers have a "tremendous vested interest in whether or not we stay in the EU or leave", there could be a strong appetite for amending the EU referendum bill in the Lords, even if Labour and the SNP fail to recruit the relatively small number of Tory rebels they would need to defeat the government in the Commons.
Iran is sending arms to Assad because they know his downfall would be a strategic defeat for them.
There is no love lost between the Farc and the US: Washington put the guerrilla group on its list of terrorist organizations in 1997 and poured billions of dollars of military aid into a campaign to defeat them.
But Smith's failure to make a major impact in Europe - the finest moment probably being the home-and-away defeat of Leeds United in 1992, later missing out on a Champions League final place by one point - led to the clamour for something new.
That defeat to Kumkhum last year hurt badly, Kvitova said, but it may also have helped her dig deeper to find the form that won her another Wimbledon.
The papers were full of pessimistic predictions regarding Javier Zanetti's future in professional football after the 39-year-old tore his Achilles tendon during Inter's defeat to Palermo last month.
They've been watching the SNP's phenomenal surge since the Scottish referendum defeat last September.
Arsenal fans also delighted in his on-field berating of Özil following the 6-3 defeat at Manchester City last December; Özil had made straight for the dressing room, and not the travelling supporters.
Carr has confirmed weeks of speculation that he is leaving politics following Labor's election defeat on 7 September.
Now he will be hoping that promotion for his beloved Norwich FC will provide solace for a crushing and very personal defeat.
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