(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.
Surmount
Definition:
(v. i.) To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop.
(v. i.) To conquer; to overcome; as, to surmount difficulties or obstacles.
(v. i.) To surpass; to exceed.
Example Sentences:
(1) This report describes how the difficulties were surmounted, and how the National Technical Centre then proceeded to undertake activities to extend awareness of the ICIDH.
(2) In calf tracheae, ketanserin caused surmountable antagonism of the effects of 5-HT with a pKB of 9.5.
(3) The results indicate that metoclopramide is a potent, surmountable and selective antagonist of tryptamine receptors on rabbit cardiac sympathetic nerves.
(4) The inhibitory effect on degranulation could not be surmounted even by concentrations of PAF 10-fold higher than that of 1-acyl-2-acetyl-GPC.
(5) One line of tumour proved to be sensitive to inhibition by a histamine H2 receptor antagonist and a dopamine D2 antagonist but resistant to serotonin antagonists; the inhibition by histamine antagonists was surmountable by co-administration of histamine.
(6) Our experience indicated that: It is possible to increase and enrich dream activity in quantity and in substance in the course of the treatment; This approach can affect all of the components of the personality which have been in regression after injury; Dream analysis does not require complex cognitive abilities and surmounts the special difficulty these patients have in using language and abstract concepts; It is possible to bring to the surface inner and subconscious contents residing in the patient that were ignored before; and The residual content of the premorbid personality is also expressed, thus facilitating the patient's inner contact between his former identity and his new one.
(7) Barriers to the effective dissemination of HIV prevention education are identified and strategies that may be effective in surmounting these barriers and implementing culturally-appropriate HIV behavioral modification programs are described.
(8) We hope that through our efforts we can surmount these difficulties, improve the quality of medical care in our country, and create a more rational economic and scientific basis for future medical development and advances.
(9) Hence, these tetanic contractions are not due to a surmounting of the atropine-block by the increased release of acetylcholine following the 50 pulses.4.
(10) Be resolute, fear no sacrifice, and surmount every difficulty to win victory!” read one famous counsel.
(11) These data show that behavior-relevant information transmitted by GABAergic drugs surmounted that transmitted by cholinergic drugs which, in turn, surmounted behavior-relevant information transmitted by dopaminergic drugs.
(12) In Model II, this difficulty is surmounted, but the formula is no longer exact.
(13) Some fibers produced very small spikes surmounted on large EPPs.
(14) We reinvestigated if it was possible to reveal this phenomenon by carefully choosing a concentration of the alpha adrenoceptor blocker prazosin that would give a significant displacement while it still was possible to completely surmount the blockade by reasonable concentrations of norepinephrine.
(15) In the absence of U46619, 5-HT responses were mediated predominantly by 5-HT2-receptors as judged by potent, surmountable antagonism by the selective 5-HT2 receptor antagonists, spiperone and ketanserin.
(16) After summarizing the health situation in Honduras and describing the National Health Plan launched in 1973, the authors explain the changes that have come about in nursing, the difficulties that had to be surmounted to reach a new professional position, and the administrative decisions that had to be taken to devise a health policy.
(17) In this paper, SDZ 205-557 (2-methoxy-4-amino-5-chloro-benzoic acid 2-(diethylamino) ethyl ester) is characterized as the first potent, selective and surmountable antagonist at 5-HT4 receptors in the isolated guinea pig ileum.
(18) The LV mechanical disadvantage of shock hearts was not correlated with changes in beating frequency, active state duration, or tissue water content; neither was it surmounted by pyruvate nor by maximally effective increases in coronary flow, diastolic stretch, or extracellular Ca2+ concentration.
(19) Trazodone and spiperone were apparently simple competitive antagonists since they produced antagonism that was surmountable over the concentration range studied and, in each tissue, their apparent affinity appeared to be independent of the antagonist concentration.
(20) There is an energy barrier at the channel entrance; if the ion could surmount this barrier, it would be quite stable within the channel.