All 16 Uses of
vanquish
in
The Ramayana
- The pleasing charm of that strange bowl, The touch of a tender limb, Over his yielding spirit stole And sweetly vanquished him.†
Book 1 *vanquished = completely defeated
- Between the rites some Bráhmans spent The time in learned argument, With ready flow of speech, sedate, And keen to vanquish in debate.†
Book 1vanquish = completely defeat
- The fiends shall have no power to hurt Him trained to war or inexpert, Nor vanquish him in battle field, For Kusik's son the youth will shield.†
Book 1
- for vanquished are my foes: Joy!†
Book 1vanquished = completely defeated
- When we equipped for fight advance With brandished pike and mace and lance, Thou, vanquished in the desperate field, Thy bow, thy strength, thy life shalt yield.†
Book 3
- I made the vanquished king resign The glorious car which now is mine,— Pushpak, the far-renowned, that flies Will-guided through the buxom skies.†
Book 3
- Then, trained in all the arts that guide The speaker, Hanumán replied: "Yea, lords like you of wisest thought, Whom happy fate has hither brought, Who vanquish ire and rule each sense, Must of our lord have audience.†
Book 4vanquish = completely defeat
- Bruised by the blows he could not shield, Half vanquished Báli sank and reeled, As sinks a vessel with her freight Borne down by overwhelming weight.†
Book 4vanquished = completely defeated
- Here, comrades, rest: no farther go: For I will vanquish hell, and she Shall by this arm again be free.†
Book 4vanquish = completely defeat
- The smitten Vánar, rage-impelled, With fist upraised the monster felled: But quick repented, stirred with shame And pity for a vanquished dame, When with her senses troubled, weak With terror, thus she strove to speak: "O spare me thou whose arm is strong: O spare me, and forgive the wrong.†
Book 5vanquished = completely defeated
- s arm had torn away From vanquished kings in slumber lay.†
Book 5
- Thus Indra vanquished, thousand-eyed, The Daityas who the Gods defied.†
Book 5
- Thus to the monarch's speech replied: "Long reigns the king in safe repose, Unmoved by fear of vanquished foes, Whose feet by saving knowledge led In justice path delight to tread: Who knows to sheath the sword or wield, To order peace, to strike or yield: Prefers, when foes are stronger, peace, And bids a doubtful conflict cease.†
Book 6
- Who may an equal battle wage With him, so awful in his rage, Fierce as the God of Death whom none May vanquish, Dasaratha's son?†
Book 6vanquish = completely defeat
- The Vánars saw the chief draw nigh Whom not the ruler of the sky, Nor Yáma, monarch of the dead, Might vanquish, and affrighted fled.†
Book 6
- As Ráma, vanquished, wept and sighed The Vánar chieftain thus replied: "Great Prince, unmanly thoughts dismiss, Nor yield thy soul to grief like this.†
Book 6vanquished = completely defeated
Definition:
to defeat completely