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v. t.
To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, to expugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.
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 conquer, overcome, or subdue in battle, as an enemy.
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To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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v. t.
To subdue, and bring under the yoke of power or dominion; to conquer by force, and compel to submit to the government or absolute control of another; to vanquish.
v. t.
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes.
v. t.
To overcome or vanquish, as an army; to check, disperse, or ruin by victory; to overthrow.
v. t.
Hence, to defeat in any contest; to get the better of; to put down; to refute.
v. t.
To be more than equal to or a match for; hence, to vanquish.
v. t.
To wrest from an unwilling person by physical force, menace, duress, torture, or any undue or illegal exercise of power or ingenuity; to wrench away (from); to tear away; to wring (from); to exact; as, to extort contributions from the vanquished; to extort confessions of guilt; to extort a promise; to extort payment of a debt.
n.
The act of vanquishing, or the state of being vanquished.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
a.
That may be vanquished.
n.
See Vanquish, n.
v. t.
To bring under; to conquer by force or the exertion of superior power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under dominion; to vanquish.
n.
The winner in a contest; one who gets the better of another in any struggle; esp., one who defeats an enemy in battle; a vanquisher; a conqueror; -- often followed by art, rarely by of.
n.
One who, or that which, vanquishes.
n.
A disease in sheep, in which they pine away.
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