vanquish
to conquer or subdue by superior force, as in battle.
to defeat in any contest or conflict; be victorious over: to vanquish one's opponent in an argument.
to overcome or overpower: He vanquished all his fears.
Origin of vanquish
1Other words for vanquish
Other words from vanquish
- van·quish·a·ble, adjective
- van·quish·er, noun
- van·quish·ment, noun
- un·van·quish·a·ble, adjective
- un·van·quished, adjective
- un·van·quish·ing, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use vanquish in a sentence
Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon is taking over for Steve Mollenkopf, who vanquished a thousand foes and put the mobile chipmaker on a solid footing for at least a few years.
T-Mobile wants to stir up ‘5G FOMO’ among mobile phone users | Aaron Pressman | February 5, 2021 | FortuneThe season that was hardly guaranteed its conclusion was vanquished by perhaps the most decorated program of all time.
Alabama’s Case As The Best College Football Team Ever | Josh Planos | January 12, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe surprise of the unfamiliar can be hard to simulate in your own home, but Blair says there are loads of tricks you can try to help vanquish your routine thinking.
Stuck at home? Trick your brain into treating a staycation like the real thing. | Eleanor Cummins | December 22, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAt the time, one of the candidates vanquished by Metzger agreed with that perspective, saying voters showed that they’d “rather have violence or the threat of violence” than other solutions to problems.
Politics Report: Gloria Goes Business With New Team | Scott Lewis and Andrew Keatts | November 14, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoThe goal for the positive rate is, in an ideal world, zero percent, since that would suggest that Covid-19 is vanquished entirely.
It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
Didn't Obama Hear Oregon’s Warning Shot on Immigration? | Doug McIntyre | November 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the Roman orator Cicero felt that Calgacus and the peoples vanquished by Rome were missing a broader point.
But Carson did have competitors (Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, Joan Rivers), and he vanquished them all.
Thanks to antibiotics, this category has largely been vanquished.
Now the reelected president, having vanquished Mitt Romney, is all but dictating terms on averting the fiscal cliff.
Why the Fiscal Cliff Is Causing a Nervous Breakdown on the Right | Howard Kurtz | December 11, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHis repeated coughing seemed a constant warning that at any moment he might be vanquished in the struggle for becoming silence.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydMy head swam beneath his blows, and I released my almost vanquished enemy to face the new foe with upraised fists.
The Soldier of the Valley | Nelson LloydEven her firm and resigned spirit was for a moment vanquished by this cruel blow.
Madame Roland, Makers of History | John S. C. AbbottBut they deemed she had vanquished the English by the Devil's aid, by means of spells and enchantments.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche | Anatole FranceRoger forced his way in once, only to be vanquished by the traditional weapons of weakness, pallor, and silence.
Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry Ward
British Dictionary definitions for vanquish
/ (ˈvæŋkwɪʃ) /
to defeat or overcome in a battle, contest, etc; conquer
to defeat or overcome in argument or debate
to conquer (an emotion)
Origin of vanquish
1Derived forms of vanquish
- vanquishable, adjective
- vanquisher, noun
- vanquishment, noun
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse