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Definition: Vanquished |
VanquishedAdjective1. Decisively defeated in combat. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "vanquished" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Synonyms: VanquishedSynonyms: beaten (adj), conquered (adj), overcome (adj), overthrown (adj), overwhelmed (adj), routed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Vanquished |
| English words defined with "vanquished": Cadmean victory ♦ Honors of war ♦ Love game ♦ To crow over, To give ♦ unconquerable ♦ Vanquishment. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "vanquished": Crow over One ♦ Dwarf Alberich ♦ Hawk, House that Jack Built ♦ Jordan Passed ♦ Logomachy ♦ Magricio ♦ Vae Victis!. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "vanquished": Damara. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Cholera "Tramples the victors & the vanquished both." / [Robert Seymour].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Anne Sophie Swetchine | Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. |
Sappho | Sweet mother, I cannot ply the loom, vanquished by desire for a youth through the work of soft Aphrodite. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And if I have not taken away the conqueror's land, which, being vanquished, it is impossible I should; scarce any other spoil I have done him can amount to the value of mine, supposing it equally cultivated, and of an extent any way coming near what I had overrun of his. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success. 'Tis said by divers of the scholar-men That poor Salmasius died of Milton's pen. Alas! we cannot know if this is true, For reading Milton's wit we perish too. |
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Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Dangers have been in frequent ambush along our path, but we have uncovered and vanquished them all. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her--that the American spirit has been vanquished. |
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| "Vanquished" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Vanquished" is used about 58 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 50% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 29.31% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 18.97% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.72% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 58 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
vanquished | 7 |
dragonball z garlic jr vanquished | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "vanquished"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mundur (defeated, possible). (various references) | |
Chinese | 征服 (Conquer, Conquered, Conquering, Vanquish, Vanquishing). (various references) | |
German | besiegte (conquered, defeated, defeated person, discomfited, loser). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ וצח (conquered, defeated). (various references) | |
Hungarian | legyőzött (beat, beaten, discomfited, loser, subdued). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 敗者 (loser, the defeated). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はいしゃ (allocation or dispatching of cars, decommissioned vehicle, dentist, giving thanks, loser, out of service vehicle, the defeated). (various references) | |
Manx | fo chosh (beaten, overcome, underfoot), currit haart, currit fo haart. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anquishedvay.(various references) | |
Romanian | învins (beaten, conquerable, defeated, losing). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "vanquished": unvanquished. (additional references) | |
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"Vanquished" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anquished, vanguished, vanquiched. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "vanquished" (pronounced va"ngkwisht) |
| 6 | -ng k w i sh t | relinquished. |
| 4 | -w i sh t | anguished, distinguished, extinguished, languished, undistinguished. |
| 3 | -i sh t | accomplished, admonished, astonished, banished, blemished, brandished, demolished, diminished, embellished, established, finished, flourished, garnished, impoverished, lavished, nourished, perished, polished, published, punished, reestablished, refinished, refurbished, relished, replenished, semifinished, undiminished, unfinished, unpublished, unpunished, unvarnished, vanished, varnished. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-i-n-q-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: unshaved, vanished, vanquish. | |
-3 letters: evanish, invades, quashed, unsaved, vahines. | |
-4 letters: adieus, advise, danish, davens, davies, divans, equids, hausen, havens, indues, invade, naevus, naives, navies, nudies, queans, sained, sandhi, savine, sequin, shaved, shaven, shavie, shined, sundae, undies, unsaid, unshed, vahine, vanish, viands, visaed. | |
-5 letters: adieu, aides, anise, ashed, ashen, aside, avens, dashi, daven, deans, deash, devas, dines, divan, divas, dives, dunes, equid, hades, hands, hanse, haven, haves, heads, hides, hinds, hived, hives, ideas, indue, naevi, naive, naves, nevus, nides, nidus, nudes, nudie, qaids, quads, quais, quash, quasi, quean, quids, quins, sadhe, sadhu, saned, saved, savin, sedan, shade, shave, shend, shied, shine, shiva, shive, snide, squad, squid, suave, unais, usnea, uveas, vaned, vanes, veins, vends, viand, vinas, vined, vines, vised. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-i-n-q-s-u-v" | |
+2 letters: unvanquished. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)56 61 6E 71 75 69 73 68 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)...- .- -. --.- ..- .. ... .... . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010110 01100001 01101110 01110001 01110101 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)V a n q u i s h e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0056 0061 006E 0071 0075 0069 0073 0068 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)56678083877585747170 |
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