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Meaning of defeature | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/dɪˈfiːtjʊə(ɹ)/

Definitions

  1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
  2. Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.

Examples

“This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature”
“What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.”
“But no discovery was made, for no volley of reproach was uttered, and could they have looked in their mother's face they might have seen that strange defeatures were written there.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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