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conquer
verb as in defeat, overcome
Strong matches
beat, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, control, cream, discomfit, drub, foil, frustrate, humble, lick, master, outwit, overmaster, overpower, override, prevail, reduce, succeed, throw, thwart, total, trash, triumph, whip, worst, zap
Weak matches
bring to knees, get the better of, shut down, trample underfoot, wipe off map
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Example Sentences
Do you feel like you can conquer anything on the film landscape after making these massive trilogies?
"Give me a horse and a gun and an open plain, and we can conquer the world," he thundered before the assembled crowd.
He also told the paper that journalist James Foley deserved to die and that they will one day conquer the Vatican.
If you hold to it, you will conquer Rome and own the world, if Allah wills.
Most recently, he has promised that followers who obey him “will conquer Rome and own the world.”
To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.
It was the spiritual way, whose method and secret lie in that subtle paradox: Yield to conquer.
Their standards had nothing in common; in the one honour could conquer ambition, in the other ambition knew no rules of honour.
Norman went slowly down, with failing knees, hardly able to conquer the shudder that came over him, as he passed those rooms.
Thus it was that he himself created the morale which enabled him again and again to conquer against overwhelming odds.
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On this page you'll find 132 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conquer, such as: crush, overthrow, quell, rout, subdue, and subjugate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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