Defeating Synonyms and Antonyms

Conquer in military manner
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. obliterating
  2. decimating
  3. swamping
  4. drowning
  5. shipwrecking
  6. sinking
  7. torpedoing
  8. bombing
  9. sacking
  10. parrying
  11. demolishing
  12. repelling
  13. ambushing
  14. outmaneuvering
  15. butchering
  16. slaughtering
  17. encircling
  18. outflanking
  19. reducing
  20. halting
  21. repulsing
  22. scattering
  23. overwhelming
  24. annihilating
  25. discomfiting
  26. smashing
  27. crushing
  28. subjugating
  29. overthrowing
  30. overrunning
  31. subduing
  32. entrapping
  33. routing
  34. conquering
  35. vanquishing
  36. overcoming
Antonyms:
  1. surrendering
  2. losing
  3. yielding

Words Related to Defeating

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Defeating Sentence Examples

  • I always said he was the only man capable of defeating Napoleon.

  • In 1814, during the second war with Great Britain, the British, after defeating on the 24th of August an American force at Bladensburg, Prince George county, Maryland, about 6 m.

  • The Dutch, in fact, speedily became the predominant European race throughout the Malay Archipelago, defeating the British by superior energy and enterprise, and the trading-posts all along the western and southern coasts of Borneo were presently their exclusive possessions, the sultan of Bantam, who was the overlord of these districts, ceding his rights to the Dutch.

  • In the summer of 1876 he was appointed commander-in-chief of the Servian army, but on entering Turkey was driven back by Osman Pasha, who followed him into Servia, defeating him at Zayechar and Yavor in July, and the campaign in Servia proved disastrous.

  • In 1868 he was elected rector of St Andrews University, defeating Disraeli by a majority of fourteen.

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