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Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

So as to defeat, or frustrate progress.

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defeatingly

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Source Word

defeatingly

not-comparable

So as to defeat, or frustrate progress.

Japanese Meaning

打ち負かす、または進行の妨げとなるように行う / 勝利を阻む、進展を挫折させるような様子

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The committee acted defeatingly, introducing last-minute amendments that stalled the bill.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

委員会は進行を妨げるように行動し、採決を遅らせるための土壇場の修正案を提出した。

Sense（1）

So as to defeat, or frustrate progress.

Mathematics is cognitively difficult, technical, abstract, and (for many) defeatingly impersonal: one needs, it seems, to have been inside the dressing room in order to make much sense of the play.

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