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vanquish

verb
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they vanquish
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he / she / it vanquishes
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪz/
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪz/
past simple vanquished
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/
past participle vanquished
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-ing form vanquishing
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪŋ/
🔊/ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪŋ/
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  1. vanquish somebody/something to defeat somebody completely in a competition, war, etc.完全征服；彻底击败；战胜 synonym conquer
    • Government forces vanquished the rebels.政府军彻底击败了叛乱分子。
    • The stories are about saints vanquishing dragons and freeing captive maidens.这些故事是关于圣徒战胜龙并释放俘虏的少女的故事。
    Topics War and conflictc2
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryVanquish is used with these nouns as the object:
    • foe
    • monster
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    Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French vencus, venquis (past participle and past tense of veintre), vainquiss- (lengthened stem of vainquir), from Latin vincere ‘conquer’.