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Defeating — Defeat De*feat , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Defeated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Defeating}.] [From F. d[ e]fait, OF. desfait, p. p. ofe d[ e]faire, OF. desfaire, to undo; L. dis + facere to do. See {Feat}, {Fact}, and cf. {Disfashion}.] 1. To undo; to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Defeating Jihad — Defeating Jihad: How the War on Terror May Yet Be Won, in Spite of Ourselves [http://www.nrbookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod cd=c6896] is a book by counter terrorist analyst and expert on IslamFact|date=August 2008 Serge Trifkovic. The… … Wikipedia
defeating — Synonyms and related words: ascendant, baffling, confounding, conquering, disconcerting, dominant, flushed with success, frustrating, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, overcoming, prevailing, successful, triumphal, triumphant, vanquishing,… … Moby Thesaurus
defeating — de·feat || dɪ fiËt n. act of winning or overcoming; overthrow; instance of being defeated, loss; failure v. overcome, beat; frustrate … English contemporary dictionary
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self-defeating — In practical reasoning a strategy is self defeating when following it interferes with achieving the goals it sets out to further. Thus the strategy of maximizing personal pleasure may be self defeating if by following it one decreases one s… … Philosophy dictionary
