defeat
verb (used with object)
to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish.
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“And while you are prophesying you are playing your cards most foolishly, and I am defeating you.”
From Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas by Sara Beaumont Kennedy