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Overwhelm vs Conquest - What's the difference?

overwhelm | conquest |

As verbs the difference between overwhelm and conquest

is that overwhelm is to engulf, surge over and submerge while conquest is to conquer.

As a noun conquest is

victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

As a proper noun Conquest is

the personification of conquest, (also known as Pestilence), often depicted riding a white horse.

overwhelm

English

Verb

  • To engulf, surge over and submerge.
    • The dinghy was overwhelmed by the great wave.
  • To overpower, crush.
    • In December 1939 the Soviet Union attacked Finland with overwhelming force.
  • * Bible, Psalms lxxviii. 53
    • The sea overwhelmed their enemies.
  • To overpower emotionally.
    • He was overwhelmed with guilt.
    Joy overwhelmed her when she realized that she had won a million dollars.
  • To cause to surround, to cover.
    • (Papin)

    Derived terms

    * overwhelming

    Related terms

    * whelm

    See also

    * too many balls in the air

    conquest

    English

    (wikipedia conquest)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
  • (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of an obstacle.
  • * Prescott
    • Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
  • *
  • That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
  • (feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
    • (Blackstone)
  • (colloquial, figurative) A person with whom one has had sex.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To conquer.
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