vanquishment

“The challenge of any country at war is you want complete vanquishment of the enemy, but in reality, it is probably going to be something short of that. The question is what,” Hale said.

Dispirited and battleworn, carrying their fallen leader, the maimed and wounded hobbled painfully along at the rear, the bitter ashes of vanquishment and defeat mingling with the dust from their stumbling vanguard.

I barely get a word in edgewise, and in the wake of his “vanquishment of A.O. Scott,” my fictional nemesis makes a bold prediction: “Never will he write again. Of that I am certain.”

Through fundraising activities and merchandise sales, the pair raised millions for what they called "cancer vanquishment".

Henderson, an American epidemiologist who led the international war on smallpox that resulted in its eradication in 1980, the only such vanquishment in history of a human disease and an achievement that was credited with saving tens of millions of lives, died Aug. 19 at a hospice facility in Towson, Md. He was 87.