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vanquish

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++van·quish /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ verb [transitive] literary  BEAT/DEFEATto defeat someone or something completely 彻底征服,彻底击败→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
vanquishBut this was not a night for Lewis to look down upon the vanquished.This spirit often turned the victors into the vanquished.She wouldn't be as easy to vanquish as she had been outside the Feelgood Saloon.The narco manages to stay alive, elude capture, get his drugs across the border, and vanquish authorities.Victor and vanquished, he was beginning to think, came together in art and were one and the same.The City was close to surrender when, after five weeks, government troops vanquished the rebels around Aylesbeare.
Origin vanquish (1300-1400) Old French venquis, past tense of veintre to defeat, from Latin vincere; → VICTOR
van·quish verbChineseSyllable
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vanquish
vanquish /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ verb [transitive] literary
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old French
 Origin: venquis, past tense of veintre 'to defeat', from Latin vincere; victor
to defeat someone or something completely


van·quishBrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they vanquish BrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it vanquishes BrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪz/ 🔊past simple vanquished BrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/ 🔊past participle vanquished BrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/ 🔊 -ing form vanquishing BrE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪŋ/ 🔊~ sb/sth (literary) to defeat sb completely in a competition, war, etc. 完全征服;彻底击败;战胜 SYN conquer