down vs defeat
defeat vs downdown and defeat both are nouns.
down is an adjective but defeat is not an adjective.
down and defeat both are verbs.
down is an adverb but defeat is not an adverb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| defeat | Yes | No | Yes | No |
As verbs,
defeat is a hypernym of
down; that is, defeat is a
word with a broader meaning than down:
- down: bring down or defeat (an opponent)
- defeat: win a victory over
Other hypernyms of down include
get the better of, overcome.
| down (noun) | defeat (noun) |
|---|---|
| (American football) a complete play to advance the football | an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest |
| soft fine feathers | the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals |
| fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | |
| (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil |
| down (adjective) | defeat (adjective) |
|---|---|
| being or moving lower in position or less in some value | |
| filled with melancholy and despondency | |
| extending or moving from a higher to a lower place | |
| becoming progressively lower | |
| not functioning (temporarily or permanently) | |
| lower than previously | |
| shut | |
| being put out in a game of baseball | |
| understood perfectly |
| down (verb) | defeat (verb) |
|---|---|
| improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | win a victory over |
| bring down or defeat (an opponent) | thwart the passage of |
| drink down entirely | |
| eat up completely, as with great appetite | |
| cause to come or go down | |
| shoot at and force to come down |
| down (adverb) | defeat (adverb) |
|---|---|
| spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | |
| away from a more central or a more northerly place | |
| paid in cash at time of purchase | |
| in an inactive or inoperative state | |
| to a lower intensity | |
| from an earlier time |
Words related to "down"
- American football
- American football game
- ameliorate
- amend
- athletics
- ball
- baseball
- baseball game
- behind
- belt down
- better
- blue
- bolt down
- civilise
- civilize
- consume
- cultivate
- cut down
- defeat
- dejected
- demolish
- depressed
- descending
- devour
- dispirited
- down feather
- down in the mouth
- down pat
- downbound
- downcast
- downer
- downfield
- downhearted
- downward
- downwardly
- downwards
- downy
- drink
- drink down
- duck down
- eat up
- educate
- fallen
- falling
- fine-tune
- finish
- get the better of
- gloomy
- go through
- goose down
- grim
- hair
- highland
- imbibe
- improve
- inoperative
- kill
- knock down
- land
- lanugo
- low
- low-spirited
- lowered
- mastered
- meliorate
- out
- over-refine
- overcome
- overrefine
- perfect
- pile
- play
- plumage
- plume
- plumule
- plural
- plural form
- polish
- polish off
- pop
- pour down
- pull down
- push down
- refine
- school
- set
- shoot down
- sport
- strike
- submarine
- swan's down
- thrown
- toss off
- train
- turn
- up
- upland
- weak
Words related to "defeat"
- beat
- beat out
- blackball
- come through
- conclusion
- conquer
- crush
- debacle
- defeatist
- demolish
- destroy
- disappointment
- down
- drubbing
- ending
- expel
- failure
- finish
- frustration
- get the better of
- heartbreaker
- kill
- letdown
- licking
- lurch
- make it
- negative
- nose
- overcome
- overrun
- pull round
- pull through
- rout
- rout out
- shell
- shoot down
- shutout
- skunk
- slaughter
- survive
- thrashing
- trounce
- trouncing
- upset
- vanquish
- veto
- victory
- vote down
- vote out
- wallop
- walloping
- waterloo
- whipping
- whitewash
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