VANQUISHING Synonyms: 71 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

as in conquest

the act or process of bringing someone or something under one's control a movie about the vanquishing of Egypt by Rome

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verb

present participle of vanquish

as in conquering

to bring under one's control by force of arms vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe

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Of course, by the end of the 1930s, the Nazi conquest of Europe had driven a dramatic swing in U.S. public opinion away from Borah’s isolationist daydream.

Mitch McConnell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2024
Dating work on the pottery nuclei revealed that most of them probably also date to the Hellenistic period, or the later Roman to Byzantine periods, which spanned from 63 B.C. until the early Islamic conquests of the 7th century A.D.

Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024

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