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the receipt that proves you actually showed up to play.
means To win against someone in a contest, battle, or struggle — or the state of being beaten.
from From Old French 'desfait,' the past participle of 'desfaire' meaning to undo or destroy, built from the Latin prefix 'dis-' (apart, undo) plus 'facere' (to do, to make). So at its root, defeat is literally an un-making: to defeat someone is to undo what they were trying to do. The same Latin 'facere' fathered a huge family of English words — fact, factory, manufacture — all spun from the simple act of making.
- word origin
- From Latin meaning to undo or unmake.
- snatching
- Victory is famously stolen from its jaws.
- brain effect
- Losses sting roughly twice as hard as wins.
- undefeated cost
- Never losing often means never truly risking.
battle of hastings — norman victory over anglo-saxon england, 1066, changed the course of british history
napoleon's retreat from moscow — grande armée lost 400,000 soldiers in 1812, turned the tide against french dominance
japan's surrender 1945 — formal end of wwii after atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki