Words for different levels of “defeat”

Learn 7 English words for losing, from a narrow miss to total destruction: edged out, beaten, humbled, trounced, crushed, vanquished and annihilated.

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Words for different levels of “defeat”: words and hints
Add	Word	Roughly means
	edged out	lost by a very small margin
	beaten	lost a contest
	humbled	defeated in a way that makes you modest
	trounced	beaten heavily
	crushed	defeated completely, with no doubt
	vanquished	conquered completely (formal, literary)
	annihilated	destroyed so completely that almost nothing is left

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