Click on the blue link to look up the word. Search/Filter: Enter a keyword in the filter/search box to see a list of available words with the 'All' selection. The blinded enemies of Iran, particularly the planners and coordinators of this cowardly act of terrorism must understand that such savagery will not cause a single wrinkle in our collective will to conquer bright scientific horizons, and be aware that the difficult revenge awaiting them is already an integral part of our work !. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go? Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences.

If a man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greater of conquerors.* And for the last three years, we and the world have grappled with who takes global leadership. It's always been the guiding light, the values of democracy, the founding fathers' declaration of independence. It is familiar to us - we have a president who tells police to shoot people dead - but this is the United States. They incite to hate and sometimes to violence, and they tend to divide and conquer, making it us against them, instead of providing a leadership that tries to unite and to heal, but in general, Filipinos are stunned by what's happening in the US. Many people have observed that he and Duterte have many things in common - they are both sexist at best, misogynous at worst. 'conquer your fears' 'conquer a country'Ĭurb, subdue, stamp down, inhibit, seize, appropriate, capture, suppress Usurp, capture, fascinate, attach, earmark, sequester, beguile, impound, get, allow, captivate, enamour, suppress, trance, confiscate, get hold of, assume, prehend, enamor, take over, becharm, reserve, arrogate, subdue, curb, stamp down, set aside, seize, clutch, entrance, inhibit, charm, appropriate, catch, grab, enchant, bewitch 'the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants' 'The army seized the town' 'The militia captured the castle' Take possession of by force, as after an invasion 'suppress a nascent uprising' 'stamp down on littering' 'conquer one's desires'Ĭhasten, capture, get over, master, crush, moderate, quash, keep down, surmount, restrict, suppress, bottle up, crucify, subjugate, reduce, control, curb, stamp down, hold, seize, subordinate, tame, mortify, hold in, curtail, appropriate, contain, oppress, inhibit, cut back, overcome, subdue, repress, checkĪppropriate, capture, seize, conquer verb

Suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb verb

Princeton's WordNet Rate these synonyms: 4.0 / 2 votes Compare BEAT.īeat, checkmate, crush, defeat, discomfit, down, humble, master, overcome, overmaster, overmatch, overpower, overthrow, prevail over, put down, reduce, rout, subdue, subject, subjugate, surmount, vanquish, win, worstĬapitulate, cede, fail, fall, fly, forfeit, lose, resign, retire, retreat, submit, succumb, surrender, yield An army is defeated when forcibly driven back it is routed when it is converted into a mob of fugitives. A country is conquered when its armies are defeated and its territory is occupied by the enemy it may be subjected to indemnity or to various disabilities it is subjugated when it is held helplessly and continuously under military control it is subdued when all resistance has died out. Conquer, in many cases, carries the idea of possession as, to conquer respect, affection, peace, etc. To defeat an enemy is to gain an advantage for the time to vanquish is to win a signal victory to conquer is to overcome so effectually that the victory is regarded as final.

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