vanquish
Verb
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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 victorioussubtypes:
- 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
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