defeat vb. (1 common 1435-1635; 2 rare sense)
1.
to
undo, destroy, ruin Tim. IV. iii.
164,
Ham. I. ii. 10
“a d-ed joy,”
Oth. IV. ii. 160
“may my life.”
2.
to disfigure, deface
Oth. I. iii. 346.
3.
to defraud (any one)
“of”
MND. IV. i. 163,
Sonn. xx. 11
“Nature . . . by
addition me of thee defeated.”
