Fill in the blanks with win, defeat, or beat according to the context: 1) Our team was easily in the first of the competition. 2) The Americans the British in 1781. 3) They the war, although it cost them millions of lives. 4) Bill Clinton George Bush for the presidency in 1992. 5) In which year was it that Italy the World Cup? 6) The Canadian runner the Australian by just two seconds, making ti a very close race indeed.