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present participle of defeat
Synonyms & Antonyms of defeating
to achieve a victory over
- they defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs
Synonyms for defeating
Words Related to defeating
- edging (out),
- nosing out,
- pipping
- [British]
- annihilating,
- blowing away,
- blowing out,
- bombing,
- breaking,
- burying,
- clobbering,
- creaming,
- crushing,
- drubbing,
- finishing,
- flattening,
- overwhelming,
- routing,
- shellacking,
- skinning,
- slaughtering,
- smoking
- [slang],
- snowing under,
- thrashing,
- trouncing,
- upsetting,
- walloping,
- waxing
- [slang],
- whipping
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