Term: heartbreaker: a narrow defeat or a defeat at the last minute
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: repellent: the power to repel
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: counterpreparation fire: intensive prearranged fire delivered when the immanence of enemy attack is discovered
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: coreligionist: someone having the same religion as another person
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: watering: wetting with water
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: perjury: criminal offense of making false statements under oath
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: ingesta: solid and liquid nourishment taken into the body through the mouth
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: bengal tiger: southern short-haired tiger
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: forte: (music) loud
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: anime: any of various resins or oleoresins
Broader: defeat: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Unrelated: enosis: the union of Greece and Cyprus (which is the goal of a group of Greek Cypriots)