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conquered

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verb (used with object)

to acquire by force of arms; win in war: to conquer a foreign land.

to overcome by force; subdue: to conquer an enemy.

to gain, win, or obtain by effort, personal appeal, etc.: conquer the hearts of his audience.

to gain a victory over; surmount; master; overcome: to conquer disease and poverty; to conquer one's fear.

verb (used without object)

to be victorious; make conquests; gain the victory: Despite their differences, their love will conquer.

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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English conqueren < Anglo-French conquerir, Old French conquerre < Vulgar Latin *conquērere to acquire (for Latin conquīrere to seek out). See con-, query

Related forms

con·quer·a·ble, adjective

con·quer·a·ble·ness, noun

con·quer·ing·ly, adverb

half-con·quered, adjective

pre·con·quer, verb (used with object)

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re·con·quer, verb (used with object)

un·con·quer·a·ble, adjective

un·con·quer·a·b·ly, adverb

un·con·quered, adjective

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Synonyms
2. vanquish, overpower, overthrow, subjugate. See defeat.

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Example Sentences

One woman's account of how she conquered her compulsion to eat.

Electronic books, however, have not yet conquered faculty hearts and habits the way e-journals have.

The uniform of capitalism has conquered more of the globe than capitalism itself.

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One woman's account of how she conquered her compulsion to eat.

Electronic books, however, have not yet conquered faculty hearts and habits the way e-journals have.

The uniform of capitalism has conquered more of the globe than capitalism itself.

During the last several decades, scientists have observed numerous coral reefs being conquered by seaweeds.

But their ascension was hardly a foregone conclusion: no other mammal has conquered the air.

Those who have come through addiction and have conquered it and are now helping others.

There is a place where geek and music meld, and there is a band that has conquered that realm.

Zombies, vampires and wolf men have conquered the best-seller lists, movie screens and the prime.

Perhaps others have conquered the physics of this, but for me, effort is correlated fairly closely with time.

You're only conquered if you allow yourself to be conquered.

The campaign that followed conquered more lands and subjugated more people then any other in the history of the world.

I've conquered the issue with knitting by restricting myself to one project at a time.

Basically it was a multi-millennial goblin and orc civilization, with humans and demi-humans as conquered subjects.

Soldiers had conquered the boy's village and he had lost his whole family.

We learn also how he was prone to illness, but conquered his debility.

Tricky ascents are conquered by cable car, gondola, and cog train.

In a different era, she would have conquered the world.

Hildreth, yesterday finally conquered the hoodoo that had pursued them for some time and the famous white and.

Brazil has conquered inflation, opened a protected economy to the world and begun to tackle its social problems.

But how and why they conquered the rest of the world is a matter of more debate.

Platt was wrong about the bacteria being conquered but right to worry about the viruses.

And even as its companies conquered world markets, they priced their goods in other people's money.

And with the mountains conquered and behind us, simply crossing the finish line counts as a win.

Agriculture, having conquered much of the savannah of the centre-west, is opening new fronts in the north-east.

Early and medieval history is full of examples of women of a conquered group appropriated by the victors.

We are being conquered by an army of flesh-eating fat people.

They conquered their markets partly by adopting and improving on foreign.

Europe has conquered inequality by making financial success a moral shortcoming, and unqualified indolence an object of charity.

They simply conquered other people and stole what they wanted.

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Word Origin & History

conquer

c.1200, from O.Fr. conquerre, from V.L. *conquærere (for L. conquirere) "to search for, procure," from L. com- intensive prefix + quærere "to seek, acquire" (see query).

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