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Definition

to defeat completely

vanquished = completely defeated

vanquish = eliminate (completely defeat)

In valleys like the Upper Braldu, Islam has never completely vanquished older, animist beliefs.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea

vanquished = completely defeated

vanquished = completely defeated

We're going to be vanquishing villains left and right.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses

vanquishing = completely defeating

He made a show of eyeing his handiwork, his vanquished foes littered on the ground before him.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

vanquished = completely defeated

IT WAS TIME (AGAIN) FOR THE SQUIRREL TO VANQUISH A VILLAIN!
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
The lighted windows and the music and the terrified, disbelieving look on a cat's face when he was vanquished?
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
The list continued on with these words: ... Vanquished ...
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
A squirrel vanquished a cat.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
CHAPTER FORTY — Vanquished!
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
He needs to be vanquished.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
WHO WILL BE VANQUISHED?
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
He vanquishes cats.
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
Vanquished!
Kate DiCamillo -- Flora & Ulysses
Their spirits are not vanquished easily.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing
Jessica had died at his hands, but there had been no sense of vanquishment, no victorious conquest.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
And then God's majesty had vanquished the darkness.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Destiny and the gods' will vanquished these, and their own hardness.
Homer -- The Odyssey

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