Meanings of defeated when in English

He was turning away defeated when a knock sounded on the door.

He was often wounded in action, and usually defeated when commanding in chief.

It is all too easy to feel defeated when this happens.

Rumpelstilskin, in the fairy story, is defeated when the heroine discovers his name.

Thus a Partnership between alien friends, is at once defeated when they become alien enemies.

He knew he was defeated when we raised an army three times the size of his.

He looked suddenly so wan and defeated when I said this that I felt sorry for him.

They attack Bearslayer and he is about to be defeated when he remembers the mirror that Staburadze gave him.

He was ambitious of the Presidency, an ambition which saw itself defeated when Van Buren became the heir-apparent of the Jackson dynasty.

Atlético had already been defeated when Ronaldo and Marcelo scored; Ramos had plunged in the knife and Bale had finished them off.

The plan to allow 90 days detention without charge was defeated when 49 Labour MPs rebelled against the government.

Clark said he could back this if the vote on May's deal, which was pulled last week, was defeated when it was eventually presented.

It says the ideology cannot be defeated through military intervention, and will only be defeated when people's minds are turned away from the violence.

Lucius Opimius had been defeated when seeking that office in the preceding year, chiefly through the support which Gracchus's advocacy had secured to Fannius.

A DUP attempt to block the move, at last night's City Council meeting, was defeated when unionists and nationalists united to vote for the proposal.