defeat
verb (used with object)
to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish.
are defeating
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present progressiveof defeat.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Can’t beat the Wild in Minnesota, but they are defeating almost everybody else with help from penalty kill boosted by return of Anthony Cirelli.
From Seattle Times β Jan. 6, 2023
Their report concedes that various communities are trying to plan intelligently, but says that the planners are defeating themselves because of the lack of a master plan.
From Time Magazine Archive
We are defeating ourselves when we condemn one another for achievement.
From Time Magazine Archive
If you once allow yourself to regard a child as so much material for you to manufacture into any shape that happens to suit your fancy you are defeating the experiment of the Life Force.
From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw
"And you do not think we could defeat these Ravagers, though we are defeating this Empire?"
From Zeta Exchange A Terran Empire story by Ann Wilson
