"defeatingly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2006, Reuben Hersh, 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, page 97:",
          "text": "Mathematics is cognitively difficult, technical, abstract, and (for many) defeatingly impersonal: one needs, it seems, to have been inside the dressing room in order to make much sense of the play.",
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          "ref": "2012, Paula Rae Wallace, The Andersons, page 298:",
          "text": "It seemed defeatingly solid, but the metal building attaching to the frame seemed rusty and fatigued. He pressed against it, and it seemed like it would give way easily.",
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        "So as to defeat, or frustrate progress."
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