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tappio — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • defeat verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
  • loss noun The state of no longer having something you once had.
  • sacrifice verb To offer something, historically an animal, person, or object, to a deity as an act of worship.
  • undoing noun The cause of someone's failure or ruin.

Senses

tappio is used for these senses in English:

  • defeat The act or instance of being defeated, of being overcome or vanquished; a loss.
  • loss (countable) The result of no longer possessing an object, a function, or a characteristic due to external causes or misplacement.
  • loss (countable) Defeat; an instance of being defeated.
  • loss (financial, countable) The sum an entity loses on balance.
  • sacrifice (business, slang, dated) A monetary loss incurred by selling something at less than its value; also, the thing thus sold.
  • undoing Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.

defeat — full definition

  1. verb To beat someone in a fight, contest, or competition.
  2. verb To prevent something from succeeding or being achieved.
  3. noun An instance of losing, or of being overcome.

loss — full definition

  1. noun The state of no longer having something you once had.
  2. noun Defeat in a game, contest, or war.
  3. noun The grief felt after someone close to you dies.
  4. noun An amount of money spent or given up without a matching gain.

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