1. (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• licking

2. (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

• frustration

3. (verb) win a victory over

• get the better of
• overcome

4. (verb) thwart the passage of

• kill
• shoot down
• vote down
• vote out

1. (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• debacle
• drubbing
• slaughter
• thrashing
• trouncing
• walloping
• whipping
• heartbreaker
• lurch
• rout
• shutout
• skunk
• waterloo
• whitewash

2. (verb) win a victory over

• beat
• beat out
• crush
• shell
• trounce
• vanquish
• come through
• make it
• pull round
• pull through
• survive
• conquer
• demolish
• destroy
• down
• expel
• rout
• rout out
• lurch
• skunk
• nose
• overrun
• upset
• wallop

1. (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• conclusion
• ending
• finish
• failure

2. (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

• disappointment
• letdown

3. (verb) thwart the passage of

• blackball
• negative
• veto

1. (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• defeatist
• negativist
• kill
• shoot down
• vote down
• vote out

2. (noun) the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

• baffle
• bilk
• cross
• foil
• frustrate
• queer
• scotch
• spoil
• thwart
• defeatist
• negativist

3. (verb) win a victory over

• overcomer
• subduer
• surmounter

4. (verb) thwart the passage of

• licking

1. (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest

• triumph
• victory