vanquish
verb (literary)- vanquish somebody/something
to defeat somebody completely in a competition, war, etc. synonym conquer完全征服;彻底击败;战胜 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. 这些故事是关于圣人征服龙和释放被囚禁的少女。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryVanquish is used with these nouns as the object:- foe
- monster
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French vencus, venquis (past participle and past tense of veintre), vainquiss- (lengthened stem of vainquir), from Latin vincere ‘conquer’.