defeat the purpose

defeat the purpose to fail to achieve the result you want没有达到目的:•Anxiety will cause tension, which defeats the purpose of the exercise (=the activity or plan) .忧虑会引起紧张情绪，一紧张就达不到目的了。

• terramara
• Mopp
• pleasure boat
• queen dowagers
• scaped
• annular vault
• N. Am.
• cognates
• de-emphases
• Baez, Joan
• vanity publishers
• blue ribbons
• canteen
• buy gapeseed
• weighing machines
• enterotoxigenic
• exteriorised
• gastrocamera
• grind out an oath
• accidental error
• play someone a low-down trick
• enterobacteriologist
• far-reaching
• be done in
• bring to a halt
• beton
• trolley line
• thiazides
• Shadrach
• corroboratorily
• zealed
• secondary splits
• syllabications
• curdler
• Biblicist
• Diels
• raw prawn
• snuff-bottles
• full-creams
• bank of deposit
• overbidder
• encumberer
• ruthful
• Lower Lakes
• accumulation factor
• exponent proposition
• frippery
• space out
• pretty much (或 nearly,well)
• figure-grounds
• make an example of someone
• Asansol
• eat someone's head off
• with ease
• geanticlinals
• landscape evaluation
• serializations
• world wide webs
• gray-flannel
• tenderizations
• Trivial Pursuit
• Hsining
• astral lamp
• disaccharide
• snidest
• antimicrobial agent
• prehistoric
• blood relation
• Kondo effect
• thingamabob
• Nusselt number
• racing cars
• count in
• peachies
• Kenttel Mountains, Kentei Shan
• equilibrators
• forsakenness
• flung
• iabas
• blue gum
• down the stream
• double reeds
• Cappadocian
• sircar
• shockabliity
• demetallized
• Ozo-
• shove off
• crescent sleeve
• tirades
• sliding pair
• with your eyes shut/closed
• lithosiderite
• paradisals
• bedroom community
• press / push (all) the right buttons
• odbcs
• supermarketers
• Natufians
• shearing machine