vanquishing

The word “vanquishing” has 3 syllables: van-quish-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈvæŋkwɪʃɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for vanquishing?

In the thesaurus, “vanquishing” has 83 synonyms and 24 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for vanquishing along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for vanquishing

  • accomplishment
  • annihilating
  • arrived
  • ascendancy
  • attainment
  • beating
  • big hit
  • big win
  • breaking
  • champion
  • cinch
  • clean sweep
  • clobbering
  • conquering
  • conquest
  • coup
  • crushing
  • defeat
  • defeating
  • dominating
  • domination
  • drubbing
  • enslavement
  • enslaving
  • feat
  • feather in cap
  • gain
  • grand slam
  • hit
  • hole in one
  • homer
  • licking
  • on top
  • overcoming
  • overpowering
  • pacifying
  • prizewinning
  • pushover
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • reducing
  • repressing
  • riot
  • routing
  • score
  • sensation
  • shellacking
  • shoo-in
  • silencing
  • skunking
  • smash hit
  • smashing
  • smothering
  • splash
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • subduing
  • subjecting
  • subjection
  • subjugating
  • subjugation
  • subordinating
  • success
  • suppressing
  • sure bet
  • sure thing
  • surmounting
  • takeover
  • the gold
  • thrashing
  • tour de force
  • trimming
  • triumph
  • triumphant
  • trouncing
  • vanquishment
  • victory
  • walkover
  • walloping
  • whipping
  • win
  • winning

Antonyms for vanquishing

  • disaster
  • discharging
  • emancipating
  • emancipation
  • enfranchisement
  • enfranchising
  • failing
  • failure
  • forfeit
  • freeing
  • liberating
  • liberation
  • losing
  • loss
  • manumission
  • manumitting
  • release
  • releasing
  • springing
  • unbinding
  • uncaging
  • unchaining
  • unfettering
  • unsuccessful

Meanings of vanquishing

  • verb
    1. To defeat, to overcome.

Example Sentences

  • Vanquishing his opponents with strategic brilliance, the chess grandmaster secured yet another victory.
  • The knight charged into battle, vanquishing every adversary that dared to challenge his honor.
  • With each stroke of the brush, the artist felt a sense of empowerment, as if vanquishing all doubts about her talent.
  • The protagonist's journey was marked by numerous trials, each one a test of his resolve in vanquishing the demons of his past.
  • Through sheer determination and perseverance, the underdog team succeeded in vanquishing their more favored opponents, shocking the sports world.

On this page you'll find 107 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to vanquishing, such as: accomplishment, annihilating, arrived, ascendancy, attainment, beating, big hit.

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Related Words

eating alive

  • annihilating
  • beating
  • beating the pants off
  • besting
  • bettering
  • blowing away
  • bombing
  • breaking
  • burying
  • capping
  • clobbering
  • conquering
  • creaming
  • crushing
  • destroying
  • dispatching
  • doing in
  • drubbing
  • dusting
  • eclipsing
  • exceeding
  • excelling
  • finishing
  • flattening
  • flourishing
  • hurdling
  • knocking off
  • knocking over
  • licking
  • mastering
  • nosing out
  • outdistancing
  • outdoing
  • outfighting
  • outshining
  • outstripping
  • overbearing
  • overcoming
  • overmatching
  • overpowering
  • overthrowing
  • overtopping
  • overwhelming
  • pasting
  • pipping
  • routing
  • running circles around
  • running rings around
  • scoring
  • shellacking
  • sinking
  • skinning
  • skunking
  • slaughtering
  • smoking
  • smothering
  • snowing under
  • subduing
  • subjugating
  • succeeding
  • surmounting
  • surpassing
  • sweeping
  • taking
  • thrashing
  • throwing
  • topping
  • transcending
  • trimming
  • tromping
  • trouncing
  • upending
  • upsetting
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • waxing
  • whapping
  • whipping
  • whomping
  • whopping
  • whupping
  • wiping the floor with
  • wiping the ground with
  • worsting

garrisoning

  • assailing
  • assaulting
  • attacking
  • battling
  • beleaguering
  • besetting
  • besieging
  • blockading
  • charging
  • combating
  • combatting
  • conquering
  • crushing
  • despoiling
  • dominating
  • encroaching
  • fighting
  • harassing
  • infringing
  • invading
  • investing
  • looting
  • marauding
  • occupying
  • overcoming
  • overpowering
  • overrunning
  • overwhelming
  • pillaging
  • plundering
  • raiding
  • ransacking
  • ravaging
  • rushing
  • sacking
  • storming
  • striking
  • stripping
  • subduing
  • subjecting
  • subjugating
  • trespassing
  • vanquishing

laugher

pacifying

  • adulating
  • affable
  • agreeable
  • amiable
  • amicable
  • analgesic
  • anesthetic
  • annihilating
  • anodyne
  • antianxiety
  • antidepressant
  • antidepression
  • antistress
  • appeasing
  • assuaging
  • babying
  • beating
  • benevolent
  • blandishing
  • blarneying
  • breaking
  • cajoling
  • calming
  • clobbering
  • coaxing
  • coddling
  • comforting
  • conciliating
  • conciliatory
  • conquering
  • consoling
  • contenting
  • crushing
  • deadening
  • defeating
  • delighting
  • depressant
  • disarming
  • dominating
  • dreamy
  • drubbing
  • dulcifying
  • endearing
  • enslaving
  • flattering
  • genial
  • gentle
  • gentling
  • gladdening
  • good-natured
  • good-tempered
  • gratifying
  • humoring
  • hushing
  • hypnotic
  • indulging
  • ingratiating
  • kind
  • kindly
  • licking
  • lulling
  • mollifying
  • mollycoddling
  • narcotic
  • nonbelligerent
  • numbing
  • obliging
  • opiate
  • overcoming
  • overpowering
  • overpraising
  • pacific
  • pampering
  • passive
  • peaceable
  • peaceful
  • peacemaking
  • placating
  • placatory
  • pleasing
  • propitiating
  • propitiatory
  • putting down
  • quashing
  • quelling
  • quenching
  • quieting
  • reducing
  • relaxing
  • repressing
  • routing
  • satiating
  • sating
  • satisfying
  • sedative
  • silencing
  • skunking
  • smashing
  • smothering
  • soft-soaping
  • soothing
  • spoiling
  • squashing
  • squelching
  • subduing
  • subjecting
  • subjugating
  • submissive
  • subordinating
  • suppressing
  • surrendering
  • sweet-talking
  • sweetening
  • thrashing
  • tranquilizing
  • tranquillizing
  • trouncing
  • unaggressive
  • unassertive
  • vanquishing
  • walloping
  • wheedling
  • whipping
  • winning
  • winsome
  • yielding

palm

  • abut
  • adhere
  • adjoin
  • annex
  • appendage
  • apperceive
  • appropriate
  • arrest
  • bays
  • be in contact
  • bind
  • blowout
  • blue-ribbon
  • booty
  • border
  • borrow
  • bottle up
  • brush
  • bury
  • butt on
  • cache
  • capture
  • caress
  • carry
  • catch
  • chaplet
  • check
  • cherish
  • citation
  • clasp
  • cleave
  • clench
  • clinch
  • cling
  • clutch
  • come together
  • communicate
  • conceal
  • confine
  • conquest
  • contact
  • contain
  • converge
  • cop
  • cork up
  • coronal
  • counterfeit
  • cover
  • cover up
  • cradle
  • crib
  • crown
  • cup
  • dab
  • decoration
  • deposit
  • detain
  • disguise
  • distort
  • ditch
  • duke
  • eject
  • embrace
  • enclose
  • enjoy
  • ensconce
  • entail
  • examine
  • explore
  • extremity
  • fake
  • falsify
  • feel
  • feel up
  • festoon
  • filch
  • fin
  • finesse
  • finger
  • fist
  • fob off
  • foist
  • fondle
  • force
  • forge
  • freeze to
  • frisk
  • fumble
  • glance
  • gold
  • gold star
  • grapple
  • grasp
  • graze
  • grip
  • grope
  • guerdon
  • handle
  • hang on
  • harbor
  • have
  • hide out
  • hit
  • hold
  • honors
  • hook
  • hug
  • impinge upon
  • impose
  • imprison
  • inflict
  • inspect
  • join
  • keep
  • keep close
  • keep out
  • keep quiet
  • keep secret
  • keep to oneself
  • keep under wraps
  • keepsake
  • kiss
  • landslide
  • laugher
  • laurel
  • laurels
  • lay a finger on
  • liberate
  • lick
  • lift
  • line
  • lock up
  • maintain
  • make a pretense of
  • manhandle
  • manipulate
  • march
  • massage
  • mastery
  • maul
  • medal
  • meet
  • memento
  • memorial
  • metacarpus
  • misrepresent
  • mitt
  • moonlight
  • neighbor
  • not let go
  • nourish
  • occupy
  • osculate
  • own
  • palm off
  • palpate
  • paper
  • partake
  • pass off
  • pat
  • paw
  • perceive
  • percuss
  • pet
  • pinch
  • plant
  • pluck
  • ply
  • poke
  • possess
  • press
  • prize
  • probe
  • purloin
  • push
  • put a lock on
  • reach
  • reminder
  • requisition
  • restrain
  • retain
  • ribbon
  • rip off
  • rob
  • romp
  • rub
  • run hands over
  • runaway
  • scrounge
  • scrutinize
  • seclude
  • secure
  • seize
  • send forth
  • sense
  • shaker
  • shroud
  • shutout
  • sip
  • smooth
  • snare
  • snatch
  • souvenir
  • spoils
  • squeaker
  • squeeze
  • squirrel
  • stash
  • stash away
  • stay put
  • stick
  • stonewall
  • stow
  • strike
  • stroke
  • subjugation
  • success
  • suck
  • sweep
  • sweep under rug
  • swipe
  • tag
  • take
  • takeover
  • tap
  • taste
  • test
  • thieve
  • thumb
  • tickle
  • tip
  • token
  • toy
  • toy with
  • trammel
  • triumph
  • try
  • twiddle
  • vanquishing
  • veil
  • verge
  • victory
  • vise
  • walk off with
  • walkaway
  • walkover
  • whitewash
  • wield
  • win
  • wish
  • withhold
  • work off
  • wreath
  • wring

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