Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
- subdue
- get on top of; deal with successfully
- angle
- fish with a hook
- hold off
- resist and fight to a standoff
- garrison
- station (troops) in a fort or garrison
- campaign
- run, stand, or compete for an office or a position
- outfight
- to fight better than; get the better of
- break down
- make ineffective
- capitulate
- surrender under agreed conditions
- bear down
- exert full strength
- wallop
- defeat soundly and utterly
- walk over
- beat easily
- cut down
- intercept (a player)
- outmarch
- march longer distances and for a longer time than
- ambuscade
- wait in hiding to attack
- win
- be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
- prevail
- prove superior
- rebuff
- force or drive back
- demobilise
- retire from military service
- glide-bomb
- bomb by gliding
- get even
- compensate; make the score equal