What does the word vanquish mean?
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Vanquisher.
Part of speech: noun
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Usage examples for vanquish
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Heaven gave to man this wide extended round, 5 No climes confine him and no oceans bound; Heaven gave him forest, mountain, vale, and plain, And bade him vanquish, if he could, the main; But sordid cares our short- lived race confine, Some toil at trades, some labour in the mine, 10 The miser hoards, and guards his shining store, The sun still rises where he rose before- No happier scenes his earth- born fancy fill Than one dark valley, or one well- known hill. – The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
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And, as our contests would be chiefly on the ocean, we must first obtain a superiority on the seas before we can put her down and vanquish her; and this to save ourselves from the payment of two hundred millions justly due from our citizens to hers! – Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. by Josiah Quincy
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Then spake King Gunther: " Never was woman born so strong and bold that I might not vanquish her with mine own hand." – The Nibelungenlied by Unknown