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Vanquish

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Verb

1. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

Example Sentences:
'Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship'
'We beat the competition'
'Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Vanquish

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verb (transitive)
1. 
to defeat or overcome in a battle, contest, etc; conquer
2. 
to defeat or overcome in argument or debate
3. 
to conquer (an emotion)

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Vanquish

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verb transitive
1. 
to conquer or defeat in battle; force into submission
2. 
a. 
to defeat in any conflict, as in argument
b. 
to overcome (a feeling, condition, etc.); suppress

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Vanquish

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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. See Synonyms at defeat.
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).

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