Defeating
[di'fi:tɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Defeat
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Examples
- A pair of boot lacings, returned Jo, guessing and defeating his purpose. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Still, your mode of defeating Caliphronas is hardly English. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Filibustering and delay in the counting of the votes are often the only means we have of defeating bad legislation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The Scotch were then awakened and succeeded in defeating their assailants. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A lamp so constructed and made before 1872 was worth a large sum of money to those interested in defeating the Edison patent like the American Company, and Goebel was not a rich man. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- On the 31st, General Wilson's division of cavalry destroyed the railroad bridges over the South Anna River, after defeating the enemy's cavalry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They may be defeating the very ends they were meant to serve. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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