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Conquering

noun

The act of conquering. Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation.

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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... since he gave up the command of the Mare Island Navy Yard in 1858. The welcome here accorded him was as hearty as that extended in foreign countries, and mingled with the admiration due to the conquering admiral was the recollection of warm mutual affection and esteem engendered by four years of close intercourse. Returning from San Francisco to the East, Farragut was seized at Chicago with a violent illness, in which the heart was affected. For some days his life was despaired ...

— Admiral Farragut • A. T. Mahan

... glance the vast plain seemed uninhabited, yet here and there were men and horses, tiny in the vastness, but conquering. Here and there also—for it was July—a haymaker sharpened his scythe, and the sound came singing through the air radiant and ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... he commanded, suddenly; "run out into the sunshine and forget the storm. You're exactly like your aunt—conquer it, conquer it, child, while conquering is part of ...

— The Shield of Silence • Harriet T. Comstock

... government of Kirti Bamba gave great dissatisfaction to his officers, who wished to dethrone him, and to place in his stead his own son Nrisingha Mal, then a child. This gave Bahadur Saha an opportunity of conquering the country with little difficulty. The Raja with his son retired to Balirampur, in the dominions of the Nawab Vazir, where the father shortly died, and the son, unable to suffer the heat, retired to the hills, and lives ...

— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton

... mind. That which cures bodily diseases and sometimes overcomes insanity has certainly power enough to modify the action of the brain; and if the large number of magnetic physicians who have been successfully occupied in conquering disease had been employed in modifying the action of the brain in the young, we might have had as satisfactory reports of their success, which neither the medical nor the clerical profession would have been so much moved by jealousy ...

— Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 - Volume 1, Number 5 • Various

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