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defeat vs skunk

skunk vs defeat

defeat and skunk both are nouns.

defeat and skunk both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
defeat Yes No Yes No
skunk Yes No Yes No
As nouns, skunk is a hyponym of defeat; that is, skunk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than defeat:
  • defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest
  • skunk: a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
Other hyponyms of defeat include heartbreaker, lurch, rout, shutout, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, waterloo, whitewash.
As verbs, skunk is a hyponym of defeat; that is, skunk is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than defeat:
  • defeat: win a victory over
  • skunk: defeat by a lurch
Other hyponyms of defeat include demolish, destroy, beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish, wallop, down, overrun, lurch, expel, rout, rout out, upset, nose, conquer, come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive.
defeat (noun) skunk (noun)
an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest American musteline mammal typically ejecting an intensely malodorous fluid when startled; in some classifications put in a separate subfamily Mephitinae
the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals street names for marijuana
a defeat in a game where one side fails to score
a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible
defeat (verb) skunk (verb)
win a victory over defeat by a lurch
thwart the passage of
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