vanquish

Unfortunately for us, we could not vanquish him sufficiently to prevent his return.

The Yankees had been vanquished, and before them the New York Mets.

The MSG rehash of his nomination was triumphant return to New York after being politically vanquished, tried and convicted.

They said she was stupid and basically a "DEI" or "affirmative action" or "quota" hire, "the enemy within" to be vanquished.

The demand for justice for a woman resonates with Durga Puja anyway, a festival built around a goddess vanquishing evil.