Discomfiture, overthrow, ruin, destruction, perdition. ? Obsolete.

Defeat, discomfiture.

The condition of being cumbered; overthrow, destruction, rout. Obsolete.

Defeat in battle; = discomfiture, n. 1. Also: an instance of this. Now rare.

Defeat in battle, overthrow, rout. Now somewhat rare.

Discomfiture, defeat.

The action of discomfit, v. 1a; defeat; vanquishing. Now somewhat rare.

The action of overthrowing something; the fact of being overthrown; defeat; deposition from power; destruction, ruin; an instance of this.

An unfortunate or lost battle.

Scottish. Overthrow, defeat; an instance of this. Obsolete.

A repulse, defeat in an onset or enterprise; a baffling check. archaic. †In early use often in phrases: to give aor the foil; to have, receive, take…

Defeat in battle; overthrow, rout; an instance of this. Cf. discomfiture, n. 1. Now rare.

A military defeat; a conquest.

An adverse change of fortune; a setback, a defeat. Also as a mass noun. Cf. reversal, n. 2d.

A defeat with much slaughter.

The fact of losing (something specified or contextually implied). See the senses of lose, v.1 Const… The losing of or being defeated in (a battle…

The action or an act of defeating an army, enemy, etc., in a battle or war; an instance of being defeated in a battle or war.

Discomfiture.

A defeat or rout. Cf. discomfit, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

A defeat in battle or war.

Defeat in a battle or contest.

Scottish. A check, defeat.

Frustration of a plan or purpose. Cf. defeat, n. 3.

An instance of this; an act of retreating in disorder and haste. Also figurative.

proper name of a defile near Caudium, in Samnium, where the Romans were intercepted in the second Samnite war. Hence proverbially used for: A…

The act of putting to rout; rout, defeat.

Overthrow, defeat. Obsolete. rare.

A drubbing, defeat. Obsolete. rare.

An utter defeat, a rout, n.6

Attributed to the conquered: The condition of being conquered.

a beating, a thrashing; also transferred, figurative, and attributive.

spec. A slight military reverse or repulse.

Originally: a heavy defeat inflicted on an enemy in a conflict or battle. Later also: a decisive or easy victory in a game, competition, or other…

(a) n. A general stampede or complete rout. (b) phr. (in the original French sense.) Hence as v., to stampede or scatter in flight.

transferred and figurative. A sudden breaking up or downfall; a confused rush or rout, a stampede.

A crushing defeat or overthrow.

slang. A beating, a thrashing. Also figurative: a heavy defeat; a severe punishment. Cf. basting, n.3, nointing, n. 2.