 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
vanquish
verb: 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" [syn: {beat}, {beat out}, {crush}, {shell}, {trounce}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vanquish \Van"quish\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Vanquished}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Vanquishing}.] [OE. venquishen, venquissen,
venkisen,F. vaincre, pret. vainquis, OF. veintre, pret.
venqui, venquis (cf. an OF. infin. vainquir), fr. L. vincere;
akin to AS. w[=i]g war, battle, w[=i]gant a warrior, w[=i]gan
to fight, Icel. v[=i]g battle, Goth. weihan to fight,
contend. Cf. {Convince}, {Evict}, {Invincible}, {Victor}.]
1. To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
--Hakluyt.
They . . . Vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
--Clarendon.
2. Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to
put down; to refute.
This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a
late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
--Atterbury.
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still.
--Goldsmith.
Syn: To conquer; surmount; overcome; confute; silence. See
{Conquer}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Vanquish \Van"quish\, noun (Far.)
A disease in sheep, in which they pine away. [Written also
{vinquish}.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "vanquish":
bear down, beat down, bend, break, conquer, crush, defeat, fell,
flatten, humble, master, overpower, override, overturn, prostrate,
put down, quell, reduce, ride down, smash, subdue, subjugate,
subvert, suppress, surmount, trample, trample down,
trample underfoot, tread underfoot
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