Defeat vs Exterminate - What's the difference?
defeat | exterminate |
To overcome in battle or contest.
To reduce, to nothing, the strength of.
* Tillotson
* A. W. Ward
To nullify
* Hallam
The act of defeating or being defeated.
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, date=May 13
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, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd
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To kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.
(figuratively) To bring a definite end to, finish completely. A rather strong word that implies that what has been ended won't resurface.
In lang=en terms the difference between defeat and exterminate
is that defeat is to reduce, to nothing, the strength of while exterminate is to kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.As verbs the difference between defeat and exterminate
is that defeat is to overcome in battle or contest while exterminate is to kill all of a population, usually deliberate and especially applied to pests.As a noun defeat
is the act of defeating or being defeated.defeat
English
Verb
(en verb)- Wellington defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
- He finds himself naturally to dread a superior Being that can defeat all his designs, and disappoint all his hopes.
- In one instance he defeated his own purpose.
- The escheators defeated the right heir of his succession.
Synonyms
(To overcome in contest) * beat * conquer * overthrow * rout * vanquishNoun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Two defeats in five games coming into this contest, and a draw with Everton, ultimately cost Sir Alex Ferguson's side in what became the most extraordinary finale to the league championship since Arsenal beat Liverpool at Anfield in 1989.}}
exterminate
English
Verb
(exterminat)- We'll use poison to exterminate the rats.
- Even a mass birching at the public school failed to exterminate truancy.
