Defeat vs. Overpower

Defeatverb

(transitive) To overcome in battle or contest.

‘Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.’;

Overpowerverb

(transitive) To subdue someone by superior force.

‘We overpowered the opposing army within a couple of hours.’;

Defeatverb

(transitive) To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.

Overpowerverb

(transitive) To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to subdue.

‘Bright light overpowers the eyes.’;

Defeatverb

(transitive) To nullify

Overpowerverb

(transitive) To render imperceptible by means of greater strength, intensity etc.

‘The dish was OK, but the garlic slightly overpowered the herbs.’;

Defeatnoun

The act or instance of defeating, of overcoming, vanquishing.

‘The inscription records her defeat of the country's enemies in a costly war.’;

Overpowerverb

To make excessively powerful.

Defeatnoun

The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.

‘Licking their wounds after a temporary defeat, they planned their next move.’;

Overpowerverb

To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield by superior power; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.

Defeatnoun

Frustration (by prevention of success), stymieing; (legal) nullification.

Overpowernoun

A dominating power.

Defeatnoun

(obsolete) Destruction, ruin.

Overpowerverb

overcome by superior force

Defeatverb

To undo; to disfigure; to destroy.

‘His unkindness may defeat my life.’;

Overpowerverb

overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

Defeatverb

To render null and void, as a title; to frustrate, as hope; to deprive, as of an estate.

‘He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.’; ‘The escheators . . . defeated the right heir of his succession.’; ‘In one instance he defeated his own purpose.’;

Defeatverb

To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.

Defeatverb

To resist with success; as, to defeat an assault.

‘Sharp reasons to defeat the law.’;

Defeatnoun

An undoing or annulling; destruction.

‘Upon whose property and most dear lifeA damned defeat was made.’;

Defeatnoun

Frustration by rendering null and void, or by prevention of success; as, the defeat of a plan or design.

Defeatnoun

An overthrow, as of an army in battle; loss of a battle; repulse suffered; discomfiture; - opposed to victory.

Defeatnoun

an unsuccessful ending

Defeatnoun

the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

Defeatverb

win a victory over;

‘You must overcome all difficulties’; ‘defeat your enemies’; ‘He overcame his shyness’; ‘She conquered here fear of mice’; ‘He overcame his infirmity’; ‘Her anger got the better of her and she blew up’;

Defeatverb

thwart the passage of;

‘kill a motion’; ‘he shot down the student's proposal’;

Defeatverb

win a victory over (someone) in a battle or other contest; overcome or beat

‘Garibaldi defeated the Neapolitan army’;

Defeatverb

prevent (someone) from achieving an aim

‘she was defeated by the last steep hill’;

Defeatverb

prevent (an aim) from being achieved

‘don't cheat by allowing your body to droop—this defeats the object of the exercise’;

Defeatverb

reject or block (a motion or proposal)

‘the amendment was defeated’;

Defeatverb

be impossible for (someone) to understand

‘this line of reasoning defeats me, I must confess’;

Defeatverb

render null and void; annul.

Defeatnoun

an instance of defeating or being defeated

‘a 1–0 defeat by Grimsby’; ‘she had still not quite admitted defeat’;