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词汇 vanquished
释义 vanquished
past simple and past participle ofvanquish
vanquish
verb[ T ]
 literaryuk /ˈvæŋ.kwɪʃ/ us /ˈvæŋ.kwɪʃ/
to defeat an enemy or opponent, especially in war: (尤指战争中)击败,使溃败
Napoleon was vanquished at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.拿破仑在1815年滑铁卢战役中战败。
The vanquished army surrendered their weapons.战败的军队交出了他们的武器。
Synonyms
annihilateinformal
beat(DEFEAT)
conquer
crush(BEAT)
defeat
hammer(DEFEAT)informal
thrash(DEFEAT)informal
trounceinformal
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to beat someone in a race, competition, etc.
beatUnited beat City 3 - 2.
defeatCan Ireland defeat New Zealand in this high-stakes match?
conquerThe Greeks had fought and conquered the army of Mardonius.
vanquishThe superhero always vanquishes his foes and saves the world.
annihilateModern superpowers succeed not by annihilating their enemies but by buying them off.
hammerThe Colts got hammered by the Patriots.
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fracas
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remobilize
scuffle
see action
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Winning and defeating

Examples of vanquished


vanquished

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The hunters had suddenly become the hunted and soon the vanquished.
But this is not what we would expect if the vanquished objection were the real reason for the opponents' condemnation.
As the chapters roll by, battle after battle is won, foe after foe vanquished.
While it is true that sovereign protection from external intrusion has weakened in recent years, it has not been vanquished.
The fact that there has been no war and thus neither victors nor vanquished in the last two years has created a novel situation.
These changes, however, have not vanquished the core scientific challenges.
In the great struggle of our age, liberal democracy vanquished communism.
And is that attempt necessarily the fate of the vanquished and not of the victors?
The study is dominated by the regime's sustained and unremitting violence which forcibly and physically divided the nation into victors and vanquished.
Yet, as soon as the victors confront the vanquished with the balance sheet of defeat, the exuberant mood of relief gives way to a triple act of defiance.
For modern science, myth is a fascinating and irritating subject at the same time, because it is the very dimension that reason pretends to have vanquished itself.
Our initial assumption was that they had been taken from enemies vanquished by the soldiers who were wearing them- that is, they represented individual combat records.
Above all, the 'new deal' of 1924 was the first major settlement after the war that had not been imposed on the vanquished by the victors.
Victor over all, you are vanquished!
Most of the papers allude to the fact that the collective rights of the national minorities were denied in both the victorious and the vanquished states.
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