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noun
overthrow, beating
Synonyms: ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing, KO, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing
Antonyms: conquest, success, triumph, victory, win
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noun
frustration
Synonyms: disappointment, discomfiture, downfall, failure, foil, loss, rebuff, repulse, reversal, reverse, setback, thwarting
Antonyms: attainment, mastery, success, triumph
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verb
conquer in military manner
Synonyms: ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, finish off, halt, hinder, impede, lick, mow down, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, prevail over, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, roll back, rout, route, sack, scatter, shipwreck, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, torpedo, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out
Antonyms: give up, lose, surrender
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verb
conquer in athletic contest
Synonyms: beat, bust, clobber, cream, deck, drop, drub, edge, flax, flog, floor, knock out, KO, lambaste, lick, outhit, outjump, outplay, outrun, overpower, plow under, pommel, pound, powder, pulverize, run roughshod over, skin, steamroll, take, take it all, take to cleaners, tan, thrash, total, trounce, wallop, whack, whomp, win, work over, zap
Antonyms: give up, lose, surrender
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verb
frustrate
Synonyms: baffle, balk, beat down, beat the system, blank, block, bury, cast down, cause setback, checkmate, circumvent, confound, contravene, cook, counterplot, cross, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, disprove, edge out, foil, invalidate, neutralize, nonplus, nose out, nullify, outwit, overturn, put end to, puzzle, quell, reduce, refute, ruin, scuttle, shave, shellac, skunk, spoil, squash, stump, subdue, subjugate, surmount, take wind out of sails, throw for loop, thwart, undo, victimize
Antonyms: abet, aid, encourage, help, inspirit