Defeatist

Definition

defeat /dÇ'fi:t/ v ၁။ အႏိုင္ယူသည္။ အႏိုင္ရသည္။ ႐ံႈးနိမ့္ေစသည္။ The enemy was defeated in a decisive battle. ❍ We will defeat the government at the next election. ❍ He has been soundly defeated at chess. ၂။ ( infml) နားမလည္ႏိုင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ I've tried to solve the problem, but it defeats me. ❍ Why you stay indoors on a beautiful day like this defeats me. ၃။ (က) လက္ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ အ႐ံႈးေပးသည္။ လက္ေျမႇာက္သည္။ By not working hard enough you defeat your own purpose. (ခ) အႀကံအစည္၊ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္၊ ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္စသည္ကို ပ်က္ျပားေစသည္၊ အေရးနိမ့္ေစသည္။ We've defeated moves to build another office block. n (က) [U] (v တြင္သာ ႏိုင္သည့္ အဓိပၸာယ္အသံုးရိွ) ႐ံႈးျခင္း။ suffer/admit defeat ❍ I never consider the possibility of defeat. (ခ) [C] အ႐ံႈး။ We've had six wins and two defeats this season. ❏ defeatism /-Çzǝm/ n [U] အ႐ံႈးေပးလိုစိတ္။ Not bothering to vote is a sure sign of defeatism. ❏ defeatist /-Çst/ adj , n အလြယ္တကူ အ႐ံႈးေပးတတ္၊ စိတ္ပ်က္တတ္ေသာ၊ သူ။

Examples

1. England suffered a 2–0 defeat by Scotland.
2. A humiliating/heavy/crushing defeat
3. [admit/accept/concede defeat] : A stubborn man who was not prepared to admit defeat