vanquishment

Complete enemy overthrow

Vanquishment is the act of defeating or conquering completely.

The word is rarely used; victory, defeat, or conquest typically serve the same purpose with less formality: The vanquishment of their enemies took three long years.

It carries a literary or archaic flavor.

defeat

conquest

Defeating and seizing control

obliteration · downfall · capitulation · surrender · domination · overthrow · crushing · trouncing · drubbing · thrashing

triumph

glory

Exalted honor and praise

champion · winner · laurels · conqueror · vindication · exultation · jubilation · celebration · ascendancy · prevalence

overcoming

resilience

Capacity to recover quickly

surmounting · endurance · tenacity · determination · fortitude · grit · willpower · recovery · triumph · breakthrough

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Opposites
outcome of conflict

vanquishmentdefeat

Victory over another

loss · failure · subjugation · overthrow · capitulation

decisiveness of result

vanquishmentdraw

Create with pencil

stalemate · deadlock · tie · standoff · impasse

power dynamics

vanquishmentsurrender

Cease resistance, yield

yielding · capitulation · submission · acquiescence · concession

Family

victory, convince, convict, invincible, vanquish, evince, vanquisher, vanquished, vanquishing

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG