Meanings (ES + gloss)
causear • debelar • derrotar • despachurrar • despanchurrar • profligar • vencer
To overcome in battle or contest.
The Japanese defeated the Ming general Tsu Chʻeng-hsün 祖承訓 at Pʻing jang 平壤 in 1592, the first year of Bunroku 文祿 of Japan, and the fighting continued for some years; but at Hideyo…
Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
derribar • derrotar
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
anular
To nullify
The escheators […] defeated the right heir of his succession.