(v. t.) To gain or acquire by force; to take possession of by violent means; to gain dominion over; to subdue by physical means; to reduce; to overcome by force of arms; to cause to yield; to vanquish.
(v. t.) To subdue or overcome by mental or moral power; to surmount; as, to conquer difficulties, temptation, etc.
(v. t.) To gain or obtain, overcoming obstacles in the way; to win; as, to conquer freedom; to conquer a peace.
(v. i.) To gain the victory; to overcome; to prevail.
Example Sentences:
(1) Efforts made to measure the successful immunologic conquest of diphtheria are compared and contrasted with efforts being made to conquer diseases of allergic origin.
(2) Last week Isis bulldozed the ancient city of Nimrud , also near Mosul, which the militant group conquered in a lightning advance last summer.
(3) How can we as a community of teachers have others value our work and endeavour to ensure curriculum in classrooms is conquered?
(4) They were hoping to escape attacks from yet another invading army; this time the forces of Khosrau II, the last great Persian king before the Muslims conquered Iran.
(5) Mountaineering officials say nine Nepalese guides have reached the peak of Mount Everest , becoming the first climbers in two years to conquer the world’s highest mountain following two years of disasters.
(6) After they renamed themselves IOU their break came when one member's mother brought them to the attention of Walsh, who was managing Boyzone , the Irish five-piece who signed to Polydor Records and conquered the charts after an A&R man at RCA passed up the chance to sign them.
(7) Walker replied that his strategy was "divide and conquer", an indication, once more, that his public pronouncements diverge from private commitments.
(8) The results indicate that Conquer Mixture may be toxic to the gastrointestinal tract and suggest that a re-evaluation of the therapeutic usefulness of the drug in the management of malaria is warranted.
(9) Franklin returned the Sony Reader, for ebooks, he was given by Random House, preferring to read submissions on paper, and while he thinks Apple and its competitors will "probably conquer the world eventually", for the moment he is more worried about how to keep bookshops afloat.
(10) Lunchtime read: How banter conquered Britain Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Guardian Design Team There are hundreds of banter groups on Facebook, you can eat at restaurants called Scoff & Banter or buy an “Archbishop of Banterbury” T-shirt for £9.99.
(11) You’ve conquered the Welsh Matterhorn – and no supplementary oxygen, months of training or qualified guide were required!
(12) While Obama withdrew the vast majority of US forces from Iraq in 2011 and claimed credit for it, he restarted and slowly escalated the US commitment to Iraq once the Islamic State conquered Mosul in June 2014.
(13) With a conquered city at her back, she may actually use a ship to sail back to Westeros now.
(14) To learn about the way diseases have been conquered in the past we have, therefore, to look at mortality.
(15) While local opponents of the scheme welcomed him as a conquering hero, his intervention also provoked a storm of criticism from architects, including Rogers, who called for a public inquiry into the constitutional validity of the prince's role in the democratic planning process.
(16) In the end the Chelsea players who had hoped to conquer the world were left slumped on the turf as the Brazilian drums pounded and the raucous hordes of Corinthians supporters bellowed their celebration into the night sky.
(17) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(18) And so I say to this Congress and this country, something that runs deep in your character and is woven in your history, we conquer our fear of the future through our faith in the future.
(19) In the past 24 hours, about 15,000 civilians - all women, children and the elderly - have been 'ethnically cleansed' from territory just conquered.
(20) We should … adopt some precautionary measure – learning from [how] mountains [are managed] in developed countries where they adopt measures to avoid avalanches by putting some kind of wood or some concrete so that it helps make it safe.” All those attempting the classic South Col route – followed by Sir Edmund Hllary’s team, who first conquered Everest in 1953 – have to pass through the icefall to reach the upper slopes of the mountain.
Conqueror
Definition:
(n.) One who conquers.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(2) Manchester United’s conquerors, MK Dons, were handed a favourable draw in the third round of the Capital One Cup with a home tie against a fellow League One side, Bradford City.
(3) Westminster Abbey has witnessed 38 coronations since William the Conqueror was crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066.
(4) Superstars where they attended college, hopefuls suddenly find themselves in unusual situations – as lambs in the middle of an Indianapolis field, being poked, prodded, measured and assessed; then as masters and conquerors, listening to famous GMs and coaches playing salesmen and extolling the virtues of their organisation.
(5) However, the Mexican population is mainly composed of Mestizos (95%), who have a triracial admixture of Caucasian genes coming from the Spanish conquerors, black genes from the African slaves brought by the Spaniards to America, and an Oriental gene-pool derived from the natives.
(6) In the wacky parallel universe where this suit succeeds and sets a precedent, lots of countries could have a case for "unrealistic portrayal": Mongolia National pride offended by perhaps the worst casting decision of all time, when John Wayne played Genghis Khan in The Conqueror .
(7) Any comparison with Ireland rouses alarm in Scotland, so here come the disclaimers: Scotland was never a colony settled by foreign conquerors; England did not control Scotland by fire and slaughter; Scotland has no Fenian tradition of conspiracy in the cause of independence; and, best of all, Scotland has no political Ulster.
(8) He is guarded when I ask him whether his conqueror has been a good prime minister.
(9) Adam Lallana inspired Liverpool to a Premier League double over their Wembley conquerors and, somewhere in Leicester, Claudio Ranieri had another reason to toast his point against West Bromwich Albion 24 hours earlier.
(10) It’s interesting that one of baseball’s chief powers are showing sensitivities about this current Pirates phenomenon - isn’t it the way of the world that the conquerors are usually far less concerned with the conquered?
(11) Hans-Joachim Watzke, the chief executive of Borussia Dortmund, City's conquerors in the Champions League group and finalists at Wembley on 25 May , has sneered at the idea of sheikhs taking over a city's club, saying his supporters, who control their club, would never entertain it.
(12) The American advisers to the Pentagon and the White House use the same clichés, the same demeaning stereotypes, the same justifications for power and violence (after all, runs the chorus, power is the only language they understand) as the scholars enlisted by the Dutch conquerors of Malaysia and Indonesia, the British armies of India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, West Africa, the French armies of Indochina and North Africa.
(13) Pictures of Governors and Conquerors who founded the first hospitals are in display.
(14) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
(15) Le Guen first match in charge will be on Wednesday, when Toulouse, conquerors of Lyon on Saturday, visit the Parc des Princes.
(16) We are turning everything back to basics, back to the way it was when it was a pub over 100 years ago.” • hovellingboatinn.co.uk , open Mon-Thurs 11.30am–9.30pm, Fri and Sat 11.30am-11pm, Sun noon-4pm The Conqueror Alehouse, Ramsgate Named after a two-funnelled paddle steamer that plied the route from Ramsgate to France at the beginning of the 20th century, the Conqueror’s walls are covered in black and white photos of the ship and its crew.
(17) Genghis Khan, or more specifically, John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the notoriously awful The Conqueror, was the inspiration for Shin's last collaboration with Kim.
(18) And you still have people sitting in parliament because their distant ancestor killed a lot of peasants for William the Conqueror.
(19) There they will face the winners of Friday night's second semi-final between Leeds, their Grand Final conquerors last autumn, and Wigan.
(20) The colossal fightback over Roger Federer’s conqueror captivated fans at Hisense Arena and catapulted the 19-year-old into a last-eight showdown on Tuesday with dual grand slam champion Andy Murray.