defeat an opponent
collocation击败对手
She defeated her opponent in the final match.
她在决赛中击败了对手。
击败；战胜
defeats — third person singular of defeat
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击败；战胜
to win against someone in a game, battle, or competition
Our team defeated the champions in the final match.
我们队在决赛中击败了冠军。
在战斗或竞赛中战胜。
To overcome in battle or contest.
使力量化为乌有。
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
使无效。
To nullify
击败
win a victory over
defeat
Base
原形
defeats
3rd person
第三人称单数
defeating
-ing
现在分词
defeated
Past
过去式
defeated
Past participle
过去分词
They defeat their rivals every year.
他们每年都击败对手。
Our team defeated the opponent last night.
我们的队伍昨晚击败了对手。
She has defeated all her challengers.
她已经击败了所有挑战者。
The army is defeating the enemy forces.
军队正在击败敌军。
AI contextual example
She has defeated her fear of public speaking.
她已经克服了对公开演讲的恐惧。
AI contextual example
defeat your enemies
击败你的敌人。
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击败对手
She defeated her opponent in the final match.
她在决赛中击败了对手。
击败敌人
The army defeated the enemy after a long battle.
军队在长期战斗后击败了敌人。
使目的无法实现；让…失去意义
Making the test too easy defeats the purpose of testing knowledge.
把考试出得太容易就失去了测试知识的意义。
击败一支球队
Our school team defeated the visiting team by three goals.
我们校队以三球击败了客队。
以微弱优势击败
The candidate narrowly defeated his rival in the election.
这位候选人在选举中以微弱优势击败了对手。
使……失去意义；使……达不到目的
If you remove the safety features, you defeat the purpose of the product.
如果你去掉安全功能，这个产品就失去意义了。
阻碍司法公正；使正义无法伸张
Suppressing evidence defeats the ends of justice.
隐瞒证据会阻碍司法公正。
你可能会遭遇许多失败，但绝不能被击败。
In this line, Maya Angelou reminds us that meeting defeats is unavoidable, but letting ourselves be defeated is a choice.
在这句话中，玛雅·安杰卢提醒我们，遭遇失败不可避免，但让自己被打败是一种选择。
失败是一种心态；除非你接受失败为现实，否则你永远不会被打败。
This saying encourages fighters to view defeat not as a final outcome but as a mental state, and to realize that accepting defeat is what truly defeats you.
这句话鼓励斗士们把失败看作一种心态而非最终结果，并认识到接受失败才是真正让你被打败的原因。
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联想：defeat 中含 feat（功绩、壮举），击败就是把对方的 feat 打掉，取得胜利。
语域：neutral 常见场景：体育比赛、战争/军事冲突、政治选举 defeat 作动词时，最常见于比赛、战争、选举等对抗性场景，表示击败或战胜对手。这种用法在日常口语和书面语中都比较常见，语气通常呈中性；在正式文件中也可使用，但不必刻意区分正式与非正式。
与 defeat 押韵的词（都读 /iːt/）：feat、treat、wheat、sweet。注意形近但音异的词：great /ɡreɪt/、threat /θrɛt/，不要按拼写读成 /ɡriːt/ 或 /θriːt/。
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