Meaning:
Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
beat; beat out; vanquish; trounce; crush; shell
Context examples:
Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship / We beat the competition / Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
Hypernyms (to "vanquish" is one way to...):
defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)
"Vanquish" entails doing...:
win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "vanquish"):
outpoint; outscore (score more points than one's opponents)
outplay (excel or defeat in a game)
immobilise; immobilize (make defenseless)
checkmate; mate (place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game)
overmaster; overpower; overwhelm (overcome by superior force)
outfight (to fight better than; get the better of)
best; outdo; outflank; scoop; trump (get the better of)
exceed; outdo; outgo; outmatch; outperform; outstrip; surmount; surpass (be or do something to a greater degree)
cheat; chicane; chouse; jockey; screw; shaft (defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit)
get the jump (be there first)
rout; spread-eagle; spreadeagle (defeat disastrously)
whomp (beat overwhelmingly)
mop up; pip; rack up; whip; worst (defeat thoroughly)
eliminate (remove from a contest or race)
walk over (beat easily)
bat; clobber; cream; drub; lick; thrash (beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to vanquish his opponent
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