vanquish

1. Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict (synset 201104324)
   "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
   entail: win - be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
   is a type of: defeat, get the better of, overcome - win a victory over
   subtypes:

   • outpoint, outscore - score more points than one's opponents
   • walk over - beat easily
   • eliminate - remove from a contest or race
   • mop up, pip, rack up, whip, worst - defeat thoroughly
   • whomp - beat overwhelmingly
   • get the best, have the best, overcome - overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
   • rout, spread-eagle, spreadeagle - defeat disastrously
   • get the jump - be there first
   • cheat, chicane, chouse, jockey, screw, shaft - defeat someone through trickery or deceit
   • exceed, outdo, outgo, outmatch, outperform, outstrip, surmount, surpass - be or do something to a greater degree
   • get over, master, overcome, subdue, surmount - get on top of; deal with successfully
   • best, outdo, outflank, scoop, trump - get the better of
   • outfight - to fight better than; get the better of
   • overmaster, overpower, overwhelm - overcome by superior force
   • checkmate, mate - place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game
   • immobilise, immobilize - make defenseless
   • outplay - excel or defeat in a game
   • bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash - beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   same as: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce
   verb group: beat, circumvent, outfox, outsmart, outwit, overreach - beat through cleverness and wit

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