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Conquer

verb

(past & past part. conquered; pres. part. conquering)

To put down by force or authority. Synonyms: curb, inhibit, stamp down, subdue, suppress. "Stamp down on littering" , "Conquer one's desires"

Take possession of by force, as after an invasion. Synonyms: appropriate, capture, seize. "The army seized the town" , "The militia captured the castle"

Overcome by conquest. "Conquer a country"

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"Conquer" Quotes from Famous Books

... was going to conquer the whole world! How does he feel now?" mused Mrs. Galland "Westerling and his boasted power of five ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... of space, and ascertain their distance from us. We are ever impelled to triumph over what is declared to be unconquerable. There are peaks in the Alps no man has ever climbed. They are assaulted every year by men zealous of more worlds to conquer. So these greater heights of the heavens have been assaulted, till some ambitious spirits have outsoared even imagination ...

— Recreations in Astronomy - With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work • Henry Warren

... conceal curiosity regarding the welfare of Zalu Zako; for did her mother suspect the presence of this evil spirit would she cause Bakuma to take a decoction of the castor-oil plant in order that the demon might be expelled; and the more to aid her conquer this unlawful impulse to peep without did she most persistently recite to herself the fate of the daughter of MTasa, the foolish Tangulbala whose body had been discovered impaled upon a tree by the angry spirits of the dead, because she had rashly ventured ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... or drink every bitter drop for her child. And it is as well she canna do it. If Christie's battle with life and what it brings begins a year or two earlier than you thought necessary, she may be all the better able to conquer. Dinna fear for her. God will ...

— Christie Redfern's Troubles • Margaret Robertson

... of honest toil, Arise! arise! arise! Ye free-born tillers of the soil, Arise! arise! arise! Come from your workshops and the field, We've sworn to conquer ere we'll yield; The ballot-box is Freedom's ...

— The Liberty Minstrel • George W. Clark

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