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vanquisht

vanquisht is the obsolete form of vanquished.

vanquisht is the simple past and past participle of vanquish.

Meaning of vanquished

Adjective

vanquished (not comparable)

  1. Defeated.
    • We were the cause of the recovery of all the enemy people in Eastern Europe, and North and Southeast Asia. It's an unusual situation, an unusual program because the victor hardly ever helps the vanquished to recover. We did just that.1964, Harry S. Truman, 3:12 from the start, in MP2002-479 Former President Truman Recalls Negotiating With DeGaulle and France after WWII, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, National...

Meaning of vanquish

Verb

vanquish (third-person singular simple present vanquishes, present participle vanquishing, simple past and past participle vanquished)

  1. (transitive) To defeat (someone); to overcome.
    • In ſingle Combat thou ſhalt buckle vvith me; / And if thou vanquiſheſt, thy vvords are true, / Othervviſe I renounce all confidence.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Questions about vanquisht

What is vanquisht the obsolete form of?
Vanquisht is the obsolete form of vanquished.

Words near vanquisht in the dictionary

  1. vanquishest
  2. vanquisheth
  3. vanquishing
  4. vanquishment
  5. vanquishments
  6. vanquisht
  7. Vanriper
  8. Vanripers
  9. Vanroekel
  10. Vanroekels
  11. vans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vanquisht (page history and authors); vanquished (page history and authors); vanquish (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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