All 10 Uses of
vanquish
in
War and Peace
- Wants to vanquish Buonaparte?" said the old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tikhon was holding fast to plait, would allow.†
Chpt 1vanquish = completely defeat
- Commanded by the Emperor himself they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought Rostov and most of the officers after the review.†
Chpt 3 *
- But at the critical moment the courier who carried the news of our victory at Pultusk to Petersburg returns bringing our appointment as commander in chief, and our first foe, Buxhowden, is vanquished; we can now turn our thoughts to the second, Bonaparte.†
Chpt 5vanquished = completely defeated
- Great God, help me to walk in Thy paths, (1) to conquer anger by calmness and deliberation, (2) to vanquish lust by self-restraint and repulsion, (3) to withdraw from worldliness, but not avoid (a) the service of the state, (b) family duties, (c) relations with my friends, and the management of my affairs.†
Chpt 6vanquish = completely defeat
- She looked straight into his eyes, and his nearness, self-assurance, and the good-natured tenderness of his smile vanquished her.†
Chpt 8vanquished = completely defeated
- Rostov reined in his horse, and his eyes sought his foe to see whom he had vanquished.†
Chpt 9
- But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.†
Chpt 11
- My father was an emigrant count....But that man has vanquished me.†
Chpt 11
- It was the unexpected realization of the fact that he still valued life as presented to him in the form of his love for Natasha, and a last, though ultimately vanquished, attack of terror before the unknown.†
Chpt 12
- They blamed Kutuzov and said that from the very beginning of the campaign he had prevented their vanquishing Napoleon, that he thought of nothing but satisfying his passions and would not advance from the Linen Factories because he was comfortable there, that at Krasnoe he checked the advance because on learning that Napoleon was there he had quite lost his head, and that it was probable that he had an understanding with Napoleon and had been bribed by him, and so on, and so on.†
Chpt 15vanquishing = completely defeating
Definition:
to defeat completely