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vanquished
adjective as in beaten
adjective as in broken
Strong matches
Weak match
adjective as in disappointed
Strong matches
adjective as in done for
adjective as in extinct
adjective as in overthrown
Strong matches
adjective as in overwhelmed
Strongest matches
Example Sentences
It was a gracious touch, a rhetorical olive branch to his vanquished foes.
But the Roman orator Cicero felt that Calgacus and the peoples vanquished by Rome were missing a broader point.
But Carson did have competitors (Dick Cavett, Merv Griffin, Joan Rivers), and he vanquished them all.
Thanks to antibiotics, this category has largely been vanquished.
Now the reelected president, having vanquished Mitt Romney, is all but dictating terms on averting the fiscal cliff.
His repeated coughing seemed a constant warning that at any moment he might be vanquished in the struggle for becoming silence.
My head swam beneath his blows, and I released my almost vanquished enemy to face the new foe with upraised fists.
Even her firm and resigned spirit was for a moment vanquished by this cruel blow.
But they deemed she had vanquished the English by the Devil's aid, by means of spells and enchantments.
Roger forced his way in once, only to be vanquished by the traditional weapons of weakness, pallor, and silence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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