WINS (AGAINST) Synonyms: 90 Similar and Opposite Words

wins (against)

verb

present tense third-person singular of win (against)

as in defeats

to achieve a victory over a child prodigy who has already won against a number of more experienced chess players

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The player whose monster army defeats the most babies wins the game.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2026
Just don’t withdraw more money from your bank account; that defeats the purpose.

— Nancy Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of defeats

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This technique overcomes limitations of older methods like genotyping arrays, which were often biased towards European ancestries and less accurate.

— William A. Haseltine, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026
Mikel Oyarzabal has four goals, so could yet challenge if Spain overcomes France in the semifinals.

— James Robson, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2026

Definition of overcomes

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That effectively takes a large portion of the National Guard off the table, narrowing the pool of available units at a time when the force is also balancing deployments and other commitments overseas.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Its structure takes an unusual approach to underwater vehicle construction.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of takes

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The compilation beats Sonic Boom, which brought Kiss to the ranking for the first time in October 2009.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Ballistic stretching beats static stretching for court sports, according to Jim Hsu, MD, a Yale Medicine orthopedic surgeon quoted by Yale New Haven Health.

— Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of beats

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Things get increasingly bleak, as the family dog’s heart medicine runs out and Jason has to put him out of his misery, and then — in doomsday prepper mode — carves up the body and puts it in the freezer just in case food gets dire.

— William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
The group gets a lot of its money from leadership PACs, which are groups established by members of Congress to help support other candidates.

— Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of gets

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One night, a cockroach breaches his citadel, and Pratt swiftly dispatches it.

— Asim Ali, Time, 1 Aug. 2026
Stand Up Placer officials said the organization’s Domestic Violence Emergency Response Team, which dispatches advocates to hospitals and crime scenes alongside law enforcement, responded to 856 callouts, up from 812 the year before.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 30 July 2026

Definition of dispatches

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Iceman appears on four Billboard charts this week and conquers two of them.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
That doesn’t mean robbing Billy of his shot at prying open Homelander’s skull, but with only a symbolic solution to Trump’s authoritarian rise — love conquers all!

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 May 2026

Definition of conquers

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