(n.) The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
(n.) That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
(n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
(n.) The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
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) This conquest, which has lasted two hundred years, is far from completed.
(3) The estimate is less than an earlier and much-quoted assessment of approximately 100 Americans taking part in Syria’s civil war and the spillover violence in neighboring Iraq, where the Islamic State militant group (Isis) has launched a war of conquest.
(4) At Conquest hospital in East Sussex, call bells were out of the reach of patients and nurses said they did not always have time to shower patients or wash their hair.
(5) Throughout known history the phallus has been invested with symbolic and even magical significance to fertility, strength, domination and conquest.
(6) They also played an active part in his first conquest, the one that started with a sweet.
(7) The discovery of this vaccine made possible the conquest of smallpox, a task that will probably be completed this year.
(8) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(9) 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.
(10) He is already an artistic associate of the Old Vic and directed Spacey and Jeff Goldblum there in Speed-the-Plow ; he also directed a much-praised revival of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy The Norman Conquests .
(11) The conquest, if confirmed, represents a major victory for Libya's rebels; symbolically it is the crushing of Gaddafi's authority.
(12) The apparently Caucasoid elements of their tooth morphology might well be the result of admixture with Spanish genes during the conquest.
(13) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(14) Then there was foreign secretary Boris Johnson describing his new offices : “When I go into the Map Room of Palmerston I cannot help remembering that this country over the last two centuries has directed the invasion or conquest of 178 countries.” Ah, the good old days, last seen in Rhodesia!
(15) In Richard Moore’s book The Bolt Supremacy he describes the odd cocktail of bonhomie and saccharine that surrounded the sprinter’s swaggering conquest of London 2012.
(16) In one of the longest, most passionate and sweeping speeches of his pontificate, the Argentine-born pope used his visit to Bolivia to ask forgiveness for the sins committed by the Roman Catholic church in its treatment of native Americans during what he called the “so-called conquest of America”.
(17) Northern Ireland is the legatee of a war of conquest between the English crown and the native Irish, which ebbed and flowed for centuries and ended with the island’s partition between the overwhelmingly Catholic south and west and the predominantly Protestant north-east.
(18) Ethnomedical studies of the Middle East may be enriched by a long-term historical perspective, which takes into consideration the complex syncretism, through time, of both literate and nonliterate medical systems in this region, as well as the tumultuous history of conquest and colonialism in the Middle East.
(19) The 42-year-old film-maker also gave an interview on Monday on shock jock Howard Stern's radio show in which he spoke about sexual conquests, masturbation, oral sex, his genitalia, the erotic habits of Hollywood moguls and his supposed habit of sending potential partners to his doctor to be checked for sexually transmitted diseases before he sleeps with them.
(20) He rubbed shoulders with everyone from George Orwell and Cyril Connolly to Jean-Paul Sartre and Timothy Leary, and he had a remarkably active sex life – his several hundred conquests included Simone de Beauvoir.
Vanquish
Definition:
(v. t.) To conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
(v. t.) Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
(n.) A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Scot has spoken many times of his ill fortune in reaching his peak at a time when his vanquished opponent Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal have dominated.
(2) You only leave the ring, even when bloody, at the end; whether you are victorious or vanquished,” he said.
(3) His rapid build-up in Syria is not, primarily, about vanquishing Isis, although Russia certainly has good reason to fear Islamist extremism.
(4) They're camped outside Poundbury, Charles's "traditional" village (built in 1993), and the only way they will be vanquished is if Charles takes his blunderbuss and heads into the forest to execute some of them.
(5) On a night when Jerome Sinclair came off the bench to become Liverpool's youngest ever player at the age of 16 years and six days – he is so new to the scene that the club got his christian name wrong on the team-sheet and put him down as Jordan – Nuri Sahin endeared himself to the travelling supporters with two goals to help the holders vanquish West Brom and secure a place in the last 16, where Rodgers will come up against Swansea City, his former club.
(6) Using armoured vehicles supplied by the US to the vanquished Iraqi army, Isis has taken 12 villages in the Aleppo countryside in the past fortnight and is threatening to turn its guns on the opposition at the same time as it tries to engage the Syrian regime.
(7) Recall that "three dozen" -- that's "three dozen" -- current and former Obama aides ran to the New York Times in May to heap praise on Obama's supposedly judicious though resolute use of drones to vanquish America's enemies.
(8) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hillary Clinton: I’ve had more votes than ‘disturbing’ Donald Trump For Clinton, the five states voting on Tuesday offer a chance to vanquish the Vermont senator, and his unexpectedly strong leftwing challenge, with a more optimistic diagnosis.
(9) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(10) More pertinent will be the ramifications of this result for victors and vanquished in the weeks ahead.
(11) One of the last areas of mental competition in which humanity had an advantage over machines will have been vanquished.
(12) Although Adili Wuxor has never vanquished any ghosts, his rise to national stardom has, for many Uighurs, comparable significance.
(13) Hypertension and ischemic heart disease vanquished many of the survivors of the seige of Leningrad.
(14) How should we go about making sense of an obscurantist crime the better to vanquish it?
(15) There was also nostalgia for simpler times in the form of the immense popularity of western films and radio shows, like The Lone Ranger , in which heroes were easily identifiable, problems were solved with a quick fight and villains easily identified and eventually vanquished.
(16) Twenty-seven Colonials came to the plate and the Virginia pitcher vanquished them all, pitching a perfect game.
(17) Why should the leader, having vanquished his enemies, reward their failure with any kind of institutional veto over appointments?
(18) The novel reads like a manifesto for his obsessions: London, both everyday and arcane; a radical political sensibility; and a determination to resist the standard tropes of fantasy whereby quests are followed, chosen ones fulfil their destiny and evil is vanquished.
(19) Italy had never before conquered on penalties in the World Cup finals and were even vanquished by France in that fashion at the quarter-final stage eight years ago.
(20) Little wonder, then, that after Republican candidate Donald Trump won the nomination in South Carolina – seizing the lead and vanquishing competitor Jeb Bush – his first stop to boast was at a convention center in Atlanta.