vanquish

Other forms of vanquish

past tense

vanquished·

present participle

vanquishing·

third person

vanquishes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vanquish

What does vanquish mean?

vanquish means "come out better in a competition, race, or conflict".

How many syllables are in vanquish?

vanquish has 2 syllables: vanq-uish. The stress falls on "vanq". In IPA it is /ˈvæŋkwɪʃ/.

What is another word for vanquish?

Close synonyms include beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vanquish a common word?

vanquish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.