Vanquish Definition

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

Vanquish is an action third-person shooter video game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Sega for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles. It began development in 2007 and was released worldwide in October 2010. A Windows port was released on May 25, 2017.

transitive verb To defeat or conquer in battle; subjugate.
transitive verb To defeat in a contest, conflict, or competition. synonym: defeat.
transitive verb To overcome or subdue (an emotion, for example); suppress.

from The Century Dictionary.

noun A disease of sheep in which they pine away. Also vinquish.
To conquer; overcome; especially, to subdue in battle, as an enemy.
To defeat in any contest, as in argument; get the better of.
To confute; show to be erroneous or unfounded; overturn.
To overpower; prostrate; be too much for.
To overpower the peculiar virtue or properties of; destroy or render inert; neutralize.
= Syn. 1. Overcome, Subdue, etc. (see conquer), surmount, overthrow; rout, crush.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

noun(Far.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
transitive verb To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
transitive verb Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

verb To defeat, to overcome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

verb come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

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

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From Middle English vaynquisshen, from Old French vanquir, from Latin vincere.

Examples

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There is no way to 'vanquish' them except by means of temporary abatement.
I'm optimistic that we can vanquish polio forever if other countries choose to learn from India's success.
As the nation flexed its full military might overseas for the first time, he joined 4.7 million Americans in uniform and was among 2 million U.S. troops shipped to France to vanquish the German kaiser.
If they do not vanquish food, food will vanquish them.
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It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops.
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Comments

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