vanquish

van·quish  (vngkwsh, vn-)

tr.v. van·quished, van·quish·ing, van·quish·es

1.

a. To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.

b. To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition.

2. To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress: "She had had to wrench herself forcibly away from Katharine, and every step vanquished her desire" Virginia Woolf. See Synonyms at defeat.

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[Middle English vaynquisshen, from Old French vainquir, vainquiss-, from Latin vincere; see weik-³ in Indo-European roots.]

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vanquish·a·ble adj.

vanquish·er n.

vanquish·ment n.

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vanquish

Verb

Literary to defeat (someone) in a battle, contest, or argument [Latin vincere]

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" beat, beat out, trounce, crush, shell outscore, outpoint - score more points than one's opponents walk over - beat easily; "The local team walked over their old rivals for the championship" eliminate - remove from a contest or race; "The cyclist has eliminated all the competitors in the race" worst, whip, mop up, pip, rack up - defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor with his opponents" whomp - beat overwhelmingly get the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome; "Heart disease can get the best of us" spreadeagle, rout, spread-eagle - defeat disastrously get the jump - be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors" chicane, chouse, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw - defeat someone through trickery or deceit outsmart, outwit, overreach, circumvent, outfox, beat - beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surpass, exceed, surmount - be or do something to a greater degree; "her performance surpasses that of any other student I know"; "She outdoes all other athletes"; "This exceeds all my expectations"; "This car outperforms all others in its class" defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" surmount, master, overcome, subdue, get over - get on top of; deal with successfully; "He overcame his shyness" best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" outfight - to fight better than; get the better of; "the Rangers outfought the Maple Leafs"; "The French forces outfought the Germans" overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior force checkmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game; "Kasparov checkmated his opponent after only a few moves" immobilise, immobilize - make defenseless outplay - excel or defeat in a game; "The Knicks outplayed the Lakers" drub, lick, clobber, cream, bat, thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!"

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vanquish

verb (Literary) defeat, beat, conquer, reduce, stuff (slang) master, tank (slang) overcome, crush, overwhelm, put down, lick (informal) undo, subdue, rout, repress, overpower, quell, triumph over, clobber (slang) subjugate, run rings around (informal) wipe the floor with (informal) blow out of the water (slang) put to flight, get the upper hand over, put to rout