Defeats

A miserable sequence of defeats discouraged us.

It is important for us to learn to handle defeats as well as triumphs properly.

I'll keep fighting until somebody defeats me.

The forward of his command should learn to admit defeats.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Sort of defeats its own purpose.

David defeats Goliath in court.

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where an alliance of Germanic tribes defeated 3 Roman legions in 9 A.D., was one of the Roman Empire's most humiliating defeats.

His life was a long series of defeats.

That kind of defeats the purpose.