be defeated

Smotrich, who has threatened to leave Netanyahu’s government if Israel does not resume the war to destroy Hamas, suggests that Hamas can be defeated if Israel fully reoccupies the Strip, imposes military rule, and witholds all aid, arguing that aid is what keeps Hamas afloat.

And don't be defeated by a bad hair day!

It’s also evident in the scrubbing by universities, hospitals, and medical societies of websites, publications, and programs focused on racial and gender health inequalities—the traces of DEI that Trump’s Justice Department threatened in a memo Wednesday to investigate criminally even though such investigations would have no basis in law and should easily be defeated in court.

National Review, a flagship of GOP orthodoxy, certainly doesn't think so, calling her "an atrocious nominee who deserves to be defeated."

"The populist right are coming for us and we need to be serious about beating them," Streeting said, adding that Farage could be defeated by "turning around the NHS".