To Be Defeated
To Be Unsuccessful
intransitive verb, ichidan verb
This word consists of kanji with hiragana attached. Because the hiragana ends with an う sound, you know this word is a verb. The kanji itself means defeat, so this means to be defeated, but also to be unsuccessful.
Since this word consists of a kanji with hiragana attached, you can bet that it will use the kun'yomi reading. You didn't learn that reading with this kanji, so here's a mnemonic to help you: You have been defeated. You lay there on the ground, and the fans around the stadium are disgusted with your performance. Some hipster walks up to you and says: "Yah, Boo" (やぶ) referring to how poorly you did. "No boo!", you reply back. "Yah boo", they say again.
まさかあのチームがウチみたいな弱小チームに敗れるとは思ってもみなかったよ。
I never thought that team would lose to a weak team like us.
ブルージェイズは、レッドソックスに三対一で敗れました。
The Blue Jays lost the game to the Red Socks with a score of 1 to 3.
誰だって敗れたくはないけど、いつか結果は出るものさ。だからそれまで、「敗れてなるものか！」と思って戦うしかないんだ。
No one wants to lose, but one day there will be a result. Until then, we have to fight with the thought, "We can't lose! We have to fight on until then.”