English-Portuguese translations for defeat

• derrotar
  O nosso futuro depende da nossa capacidade de derrotar o terrorismo. Our future depends on our ability to defeat terrorism.
  Nenhum país pode derrotar sozinho o terrorismo internacional. No country can defeat international terrorism on its own.
  O diálogo é a única forma de derrotar os piores demónios da nossa natureza. Dialogue is the only way to defeat the worst angels of our nature.
• derrota
  Podemos admitir que foi uma derrota. It could also be called a defeat.
  Laurent Gbagbo tem de aceitar a derrota. Laurent Gbagbo must accept defeat.
  Isso é uma forma de V. Exa. admitir a derrota na OMC? Are you conceding defeat at the WTO?
• vencer
  Faz parte dos instrumentos necessários para podermos vencer o vírus. It is part of the toolkit needed to defeat the virus.
  Todavia, não devemos deixar-nos vencer pelo pessimismo nem pelo derrotismo. However, we must not indulge in pessimism or defeatism.
  Vencer este cancro económico e social constitui uma obrigação para cada um de nós. We each have a duty to do all we can to defeat this social and economic cancer.
• vencimento

Definition of defeat

• To overcome in battle or contest
• To reduce, to nothing, the strength of
• To nullify
• The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss
• The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing
• Frustration , stymieing; nullification
• Destruction, ruin

Examples

• Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
• Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.
• The inscription records her defeat of the countrys enemies in a costly war.

Related words

• defeated
• undefeated
• defeatism
• defeater
• defeatist
• defeature
• suffer a defeat
• snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
• snatch victory from the jaws of defeat