defeatedadj.

1578 J. Polemon All Famous Battels 247 Albert..left his defeated people, his ordinaunce, furniture, and baggage vnto the mercilesse vsage of his enimies.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 116 Hee gathered together the relictes of the defeated armies.

1709 S. White Comm. Prophet Isaiah Pref. p. xxxiv He describes them insulting over the defeated Army.

1770 in T. Nugent tr. E. Toze Present State Europe III. x. 334 Hereupon the defeated slaves bent their flight northwards.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 239 The malevolence of the defeated party soon revived in all its energy.

1897 Cavalry Tactics xiv. 80 The bolder the better; hesitating cavalry are defeated cavalry.

1935 Irish Times 2 May 11/4 Dublin were in reality a defeated team.

1966 Washington Post 31 Dec. a2/2 The defeated candidate's supporters filed suit.

2014 H. Macdonald Bizet vii. 167 Remnants of the defeated army poured into Paris.

1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 129 Why should defeated Affection any longer delude itselfe with a preiudicate & vayne imagination of an Alchimisticall Discipline?

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 10 As twere with a defeated ioy. View more context for this quotation

1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica Viewed (ed. 2) 86 Daring, to Rally defeated Courage.

1774 London Mag. Aug. 387/2 He looked defeated and disgraced, whilst a crowded laughing court testified their plaudits of Mr. Nowell's retort.

1845 C. Lever O'Donoghue xxxvi. 302 There was a time when disappointment would have irritated him rather than have suggested any new expedient for success. Now he was changed in this respect. If baffled, he did not feel defeated.

1861 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 610/1 Nancy..had returned to her native place..not so badly satisfied on the whole, but still a defeated woman.

1923 C. C. Catt & N. R. Shuler Woman Suffrage & Politics xviii. 268 The untiring, intrepid, never discouraged, never defeated, greatest-souled woman of the suffrage movement.

1947 J. Symons Man called Jones vi. 72 Everything about him..was a little limp, the defeated droops of his shoulders, the casual drabness of his suit and tie, [etc.].

1956 N. Coward Diary 18 June (2000) 325 A scarifying mixture of twisted frustrations, social insecurity, spiritual vacuity and defeated lust, both for power and love.

2011 C. Moran How to be Woman (2012) iii. 63 My husband approached her nethers, tentatively, with a wet-wipe, and then slumped back, looking defeated.

1849 W. J. Linton in Truth-seeker 512 Recollect..Æsop's noble fable, of the contention of the sun and wind: how the fierce blusterer cannot tear away the traveler's..cloak,..moaning defeatedly.

1930 T. Boyd in N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 159/1 His shoulders slumped defeatedly. He sighed.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Feb. ‘At least I tried my very best..I guess,’ she sings defeatedly.