Synonyms of defeating

defeating

verb

present participle of defeat

as in overcoming

to achieve a victory over

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overcoming
• mastering
• beating
• conquering
• taking
• getting
• dispatching
• stopping
• subduing
• surmounting
• succeeding
• besting
• upending
• overmatching
• licking
• winning (against)
• trimming
• prevailing (over)
• triumphing (over)
• overbearing
• getting the better of
• worsting
• getting around
• finishing
• doing down
• crushing
• burying
• skunking
• sweeping
• surpassing
• slaughtering
• overwhelming
• scoring
• annihilating
• vanquishing
• exceeding
• upsetting
• knocking for a loop
• trouncing
• capping
• clobbering
• whipping
• overthrowing
• excelling
• subjugating
• bombing
• routing
• flattening
• thrashing
• unseating
• topping
• drubbing
• blowing out
• flourishing
• breaking
• walloping
• pipping
• creaming
• overpowering
• edging (out)
• transcending
• outdoing
• blowing away
• smoking
• outshining
• shellacking
• eclipsing
• outdistancing
• skinning
• nosing out
• outfighting
• bettering
• waxing
• outstripping
• knocking over
• overtopping
• snowing under
• knocking off
• acing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• failing
• giving up
• collapsing
• folding
• going under
• flopping
• washing out
• flunking

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• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• failing
• giving up
• collapsing
• folding
• going under
• flopping
• washing out
• flunking

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