0 past simple and past participle of vanquish
1 to defeat an enemy or opponent, especially in war:
Napoleon was vanquished at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
The vanquished army surrendered their weapons.
The hunters had suddenly become the hunted and soon the vanquished.
But this is not what we would expect if the vanquished objection were the real reason for the opponents' condemnation.
As the chapters roll by, battle after battle is won, foe after foe vanquished.
While it is true that sovereign protection from external intrusion has weakened in recent years, it has not been vanquished.
The fact that there has been no war and thus neither victors nor vanquished in the last two years has created a novel situation.
These changes, however, have not vanquished the core scientific challenges.
In the great struggle of our age, liberal democracy vanquished communism.
And is that attempt necessarily the fate of the vanquished and not of the victors?
