败

to defeat / to damage / to lose (to an opponent) / to fail / to wither

variant of 攴[pu1]

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

to be defeated / to lose / to fail (e.g. experiments) / failure / defeat / CL:次[ci4]

loser

to defeat / to beat

lit. defeated, the ground blanketed with bodies (idiom) / fig. to suffer a crushing defeat

to turn defeat into victory (idiom); to turn the tide

both sides suffer (idiom) / neither side wins

to defeat / to inflict a defeat on sb

to fail within sight of success (idiom); last-minute failure / to fall at the last hurdle / snatching defeat from the jaws of victory

offending public morals (idiom)

to succeed through failure / to achieve one's final aim despite apparent setback

defeatism

Failure is the mother of success.

invincible position

(sports) to be trounced (by an opponent) / crushing defeat

to not be able to distinguish who's winning

to collapse (of building)

see 優勝劣汰|优胜劣汰[you1 sheng4 lie4 tai4]

troops in defeat like a landslide (idiom); a beaten army in total collapse

to oppose corruption / anti-graft (measures, policy etc)

to sit and await success or failure (idiom); to wait to see the outcome of a fight before taking sides / to sit on the fence