Local English word record

vanquish

verb · 1 sense

come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

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Examples

  • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
  • We beat the competition
  • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game

Word relationships

Synonyms

beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce

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Princeton WordNet 3.0