(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.
Subjugate
Definition:
(v. t.) To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although he could be lovable, charming, whimsical, encouraging, and deeply devoted to his family, he subjugated the adult women in his household and at least one son to exploitation and abuse, demanding (and receiving from his wife and step-daughter) almost total abnegation of self.
(2) It is very disturbing that today's social customs allow Dr. Cornwell to advise that personal moral values should be subjugated to those of the community.
(3) If a Muslim candidate did not renounce such aspects of his or her faith, Carson said, “Why in fact would you take that chance?” Referring to criticism of his remark last weekend to NBC that he “would not advocate” a Muslim becoming president, Carson said: “I said anybody, doesn’t matter what their religious background, if they accept American values and principles and are willing to subjugate their religious beliefs to our constitution, I have no problem with them.” Article VI of the US constitution states: “No religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.” The first amendment to the constitution says: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …” Carson is a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
(4) The next conquest by William in 1066 crushed Anglo-Saxon England, but that in turn would produce the idea of “the Norman yoke”, which had supposedly subjugated the English people.
(5) Egypt's breadbasket is littered with the remnants of old colonisers, from the Romans to the Germans, and today its 50 million inhabitants jostle for space among the crumbling forts and cemeteries of those who sought to subjugate them in the past.
(6) The judiciary branch, according to these three laws, would become subjugated to the executive,” said Ewa Łętowska, a professor at Poland’s Institute of Legal Sciences and a former judge who served on the country’s constitutional tribunal and the supreme administrative court.
(7) When psychotherapy is viewed as inherently a change-facilitating process, subjugated to and oriented toward such events, the therapist's function is catalytic rather than analytic.
(8) With the Somali women who were the antithesis of the stereotyped, subjugated Muslim female – strong, proud, fighters to the end.
(9) LaPierre says look at the Second Amendment: "They had lived under the tyranny of King George and they wanted to make sure that these people in this new country would never be subjugated to tyranny... Then LaPierre says if there's an earthquake people need guns: "The only way they're going to be able to protect themselves in the cold, in the dark, when they're vulnerable, is with a gun."
(10) And yet the latest criticism from Brussels inspires a rightwing magazine cover showing European leaders wearing Nazi uniform: “Once again they want to subjugate Poland.” The PiS government is “anti-European”.
(11) Although the modern medical culture has originated in the West, it has gradually spread to all parts of the world, subjugating other kinds of medical knowledge and other attitudes to dying and death.
(12) Has the epidemic mass rape in Congo got something to do with the country's own history, the result of many years of subjugation, played back?
(13) It is no more justifiable than saying that the only future which religious Jews - as Jews - can envision is one in which non-Jews live in complete slavery and subjugation: a claim often made by anti-semites based on highly selective passages from the Talmud .
(14) His own daughter, a glamorous lawyer, is certainly no subjugated eastern woman.
(15) They are those who do not want Britain to look after its own economic interests and wants it to be subjugated to them for ever."
(16) And so they came by the thousands from every corner of our country, men and women, young and old, blacks who longed for freedom and whites who could no longer accept freedom for themselves while witnessing the subjugation of others.
(17) These connections survived Moon's increasingly embarrassing activities – his sermons dwelling on the "sexual organs", his description of American women as descended from prostitutes, family scandals, Rabbinic court condemnation for antisemitism and a vow to "conquer and subjugate the world".
(18) As a fellow Rhodes scholar and an African woman, I frequently get asked why, in the face of Rhodes's bloody and destructive quest to subjugate an entire generation of my people, I would accept money from a trust set up in his name.
(19) During subjugation and inertial feeding the skull remains ventroflexed.
(20) Asked in 2005 to elaborate on the meaning of the band's lyrics, Page replied: "The topics vary from sociological issues, religion, and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subjugated to."