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defeating

verb , present participle of defeat

Synonyms and Antonyms of defeating

to achieve a victory over

they defeated their archrivals easily and moved into the next round of the play-offs

Synonyms of defeating

beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, doing down [British], getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, subduing, surmounting, taking, trimming, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting

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

capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding

knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishing

acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending

Phrases Synonymous with defeating

getting the better of, knocking for a loop

Near Antonyms of defeating

falling, giving up, going down, going under

collapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out

Antonyms of defeating

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