Vanquish vs Perish - What's the difference?
vanquish | perish |
To defeat, to overcome.
* Clarendon
* Atterbury
To pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.
To die; to cease to live.
* 1719 ,
(obsolete) To cause to perish.
As verbs the difference between vanquish and perish
is that vanquish is to defeat, to overcome while perish is to pass away; to come to naught; to waste away; to decay and disappear.vanquish
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Verb
(es)- They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
- This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.
perish
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Verb
(es)- ...the ship struck upon a sand, and ... the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.
- (Francis Bacon)
