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  • My father says that princesses personify the decadence of a vanquished era.  (source)
    vanquished = overthrown
  • And I answer myself, perhaps they believed a still greater power could exist, one that could vanquish even Lord Voldemort....perhaps they now pay allegiance to another ....perhaps that champion of commoners, of Mudbloods and Muggles, Albus Dumbledore?  (source)
    vanquish = completely defeat
  • He made a show of eyeing his handiwork, his vanquished foes littered on the ground before him.  (source)
    vanquished = completely defeated
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  • Let the end come, however cruel; at least then we'll know whether we are to be the victors or the vanquished.  (source)
    vanquished = completely defeated
  • There was a murder to stop, a superhero to mentor, villains to vanquish, darkness to eradicate.  (source)
    vanquish = completely defeat
  • Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length refus'd to play any more, unless on this condition, that the victor in every game should have a right to impose a task, either in parts of the grammar to be got by heart, or in translations, etc., which tasks the vanquish'd was to perform upon honour, before our next meeting.†  (source)
    vanquish'd = completely defeated
  • Master Charles an' his faithful squire, Tummeler, vanquishing foes and, uh, closin' boxes!†  (source)
    vanquishing = completely defeating
  • The unvanquished truth, is how Freak would say it, and for a long time it was him who did the talking.†  (source)
    unvanquished = not completely defeated
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unvanquished means not and reverses the meaning of vanquished. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
  • Besides Prince S. and Evgenie Pavlovitch, we must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N.—once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.†  (source)
    vanquisher = someone who completely defeats another
  • He vanquishes cats.  (source)
    vanquishes = completely defeats
  • It was a battle to death or complete vanquishment.†  (source)
    vanquishment = the complete defeat
  • Upon the flaming chariot set she her foot, and grasped her heavy spear, great and stout, wherewith she vanquisheth the ranks of men, even of heroes with whom she of the awful sire is wroth.†  (source)
    vanquisheth = completely defeats
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She vanquisheth" in older English, today we say "She vanquishes."
  • He squinted again for a single second and saw the open doorway filling with people, as the survivors of the battle came out onto the front steps to face their vanquishers and see the truth of Harry's death for themselves.†  (source)
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