"be defeated" in German to be defeated unterliegen Detailed translations for "be defeated" to be defeated to be defeated(also: to succumb, to lose, to underlie) unterliegen{intransitive verb} And the challenge read that Bruce, if he were to be defeated in this challenge would have to cease Source: opensubtitles.org Corpus by OPUS Request review Und die Herausforderung besagte, dass Bruce, falls er bei dieser Herausforderung unterliegen würde,