defeat

  1. Verb.  To overcome in battle or contest.
  2. Verb.  To destroy, ruin, undo, lay waste to.(rfex) .
  3. Verb.  To nullify; to reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
  4. Noun.  The act of defeating or being defeated.

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