"defeat" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He proceeded to defeat the Greek garrison on the small island of Sphacteria off the coast of Messenia.
- In 1745 the navy twice defeated the French off Finisterre but their convoys escaped.
- He drowned in the Irish Sea, having been shipwrecked after defeating the French off the Cornish coast.
- In 809, the strategos Paul defeated a Venetian fleet off Dalmatia.
- Arcidi defeated the much bigger Clark (5'8", 375 lbs) by pressing 725 pounds off his chest to establish yet a new, but controversial, world record.
- On 22 February, the Bourbon navies defeated the British off the coast of Toulon.
- He defeated the Carthaginian fleet off the Liparaean islands, though not without considerable loss.
- Kovan defeated the 1995 champion, John Riley, by 14.02 seconds while clipping 1.69 seconds off the course record, set in 1982.
- Joining French forces in the ongoing war with Spain, he defeated a Spanish fleet off Barcelona in 1655.
- With this fleet he defeated the enemy's fleet off Ilium and then off Lemnos.
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