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defeater

noun
/dɪˈfiːtə(ɹ)/UK

Etymology

From defeat + -er.

  1. derived from defet — “disfigured”
  2. inherited from defeten
  3. suffixed as defeater — “defeat + er”

Definitions

  1. One who defeats.

    • defeater of the rebel hordes

  2. a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another…

    a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for defeater. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA