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defeatures

defeatures is the plural of defeature.

Meaning of defeature

Noun (1)

defeature

  1. Defeat, overthrow, ruin.
    • This mischiefe framd, for their first loves defeature1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Noun (2)

defeature (plural defeatures)

  1. Disfigurement, defacement, deformation.
    • What ruins are in me that can be found, / By him not ruin'd? then is he the ground / of my defeatures.c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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Questions about defeatures

What is defeatures the plural of?
Defeatures is the plural of defeature.

Words near defeatures in the dictionary

  1. defeatocrat
  2. defeatocrats
  3. defeats
  4. defeature
  5. defeatured
  6. defeatures
  7. defeaturing
  8. Defebaugh
  9. defecalgesiophobia
  10. defecate
  11. defecated

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