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Surpassed vs Defeated - What's the difference?

surpassed | defeated |

As verbs the difference between surpassed and defeated

is that surpassed is (surpass) while defeated is (defeat).

As an adjective defeated is

subjugated, beaten, overcome.

surpassed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (surpass)

    • surpass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To go beyond, especially in a metaphoric or technical manner; to exceed.
    • The former problem student surpassed his instructor's expectations and scored top marks on his examination.
    The heavy rains threatened to surpass the capabilities of the levee, endangering the town on the other side.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
    • , title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=“Two or three months more went by?; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest. […]”}}

    See also

    * exceed * excel * outdo * outstrip

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    defeated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Subjugated, beaten, overcome.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (defeat)