defeat: [14] Etymologically, to defeat someone is literally to ‘undo’ them. The verb comes from Anglo–Norman defeter, a derivative of the noun defet. This in turn came from Old French desfait, the past participle of the verb desfaire. This was a descendant of medieval Latin disfacere, literally ‘undo’, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis-, denoting reversal, and Latin facere ‘do, make’.
Its original metaphorical extension was to ‘ruination’ or ‘destruction’, and the now central sense ‘conquer’ is not recorded in English before the 16th century. A classical Latin combination of facere with the prefix dē- rather than dis- produced defect, deficient, and deficit. => defect, deficient, deficit
defeat (v.)
late 14c., from Anglo-French defeter, from Old French desfait, past participle of desfaire "to undo," from Vulgar Latin *diffacere "undo, destroy," from Latin dis- "un-, not" (see dis-) + facere "to do, perform" (see factitious). Original sense was of "bring ruination, cause destruction." Military sense of "conquer" is c. 1600. Related: Defeated; defeating.
defeat (n.)
1590s, from defeat (v.).
例文
1. After the pain of defeat passes，England have some thinking to do.
失敗の苦しみが過ぎ去った後、イギリス人は真剣に反省すべきだ。
2.Initially the government was unwilling to accept the defeat .
最初は政府は失敗を認めたくなかった。
3.Sampdoria lost their unbeaten record with a 2-1 home defeat against Genoa.
サンプドリアはホームでジェノアに1-2で敗れた後、自身の無敗記録を打ち切った。
4.They had their championship hopes dashed by a 3-1 defeat .
が1対3の敗北を喫した後、彼らの優勝の夢は破滅した。
5.Second-placed Auxerre suffered a surprising 2-0 home defeat to Nantes.