vanquishing
Achieving total victory
Vanquishing is defeating thoroughly, especially in battle or competition.
The word carries a literary or dramatic tone—knights vanquish dragons, heroes vanquish evil.
In everyday use, it often appears with a touch of grandiosity: After vanquishing the competition, they celebrated.
The emphasis is on complete, decisive victory rather than a narrow win.
Defeating and taking control
- subduingBringing under control
- overpoweringToo intense to withstand
- quellingForcibly ending resistance
- suppressingForcibly restraining or inhibiting
crushing · prevailing · surmounting · mastering · besting · thwarting · neutralizing · triumphing
Domain under unified control
- dominationSupreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- annexationAbsorbing territory into jurisdiction
occupation · hegemony · invasion · colonization · imperialism · sovereignty · crusade · campaign
Resounding, celebrated victory
- gloryExalted honor and praise
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- winnerOne who prevails
- supremacyHighest rank or power
dominance · ascendancy · jubilation · exultation · celebration · heroism · accolade · trophy
Overwhelming one-sided victory
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- destructionAct of completely ruining
- eradicationTotal elimination of something
crushing · decimation · wipeout · downfall · collapse · demise · capitulation · surrender
conquering
Defeating and taking control
- subduingBringing under control
- overpoweringToo intense to withstand
- quellingForcibly ending resistance
suppressing · crushing · prevailing · surmounting · mastering · besting · thwarting · neutralizing · triumphing · defeating
empire
Domain under unified control
- dominationSupreme authority held
- subjugationForcing into submission
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
annexation · occupation · hegemony · invasion · colonization · imperialism · sovereignty · crusade · campaign · incursion
triumph
Resounding, celebrated victory
supremacy · dominance · ascendancy · jubilation · exultation · celebration · heroism · accolade · trophy · medal
rout
Overwhelming one-sided victory
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- destructionAct of completely ruining
eradication · crushing · decimation · wipeout · downfall · collapse · demise · capitulation · surrender · humiliation
- conquestwar of conquest, capture, invasion, domination, subjugation
- winningvictory, win, winner, winning, triumph
- Beatdownsbeatdown, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, blowout
- destructiondestruction, destroying, demolishing, devastation, ruination
- featsfeat, stunt, exploit, daring feat, deed
- outperformingsurpassing, exceeding, excelling, outperforming, outdoing
vanquishingsurrendering
Ceasing to resist
capitulating · submitting · yielding · conceding · giving up
vanquish, vanquisher, vanquished, vanquishes, vanquishment, vanquishers, unvanquished