defeature

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
14
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/dɪˈfiːtjʊə(ɹ)/(UK)

Definition of defeature

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
    “This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature”
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noun

  1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
    “This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature”
  2. Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
    “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.”

verb

  1. (rare)To deform.

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Etymology

From defeat + -ure.

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8-letter words

3 words

7-letter words

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6-letter words

18 words

5-letter words

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4-letter words

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3-letter words

43 words

2-letter words

16 words

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