A general who brings his army to ruin is the classical sense of this character.
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history
偾 is not an independent word in modern Chinese. In classical texts it means to fall flat or to bring something to ruin (a defeated general was a 偾 of his army). It pairs the person radical 亻 with the phonetic 贲, the same phonetic in 喷 and 愤.
register
Classical and literary only; encountered in old prose and etymology notes, not in modern speech, where 失败 or 毁坏 are used.
