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Victory vs Vanquish - What's the difference?

victory | vanquish |

As verbs the difference between victory and vanquish

is that victory is (rare) to achieve a while vanquish is to defeat, to overcome.

As a noun victory

is an instance of having won a competition or battle.

victory

English

Noun

(victories)
  • An instance of having won a competition or battle.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 12 , author= , title=International friendly: England 1-0 Spain , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
  • A winged figure representing victory, common in Roman official iconography. See .

    • Antonyms

    * defeat * loss

    Derived terms

    * hollow victory * Pyrrhic victory * victory at sea

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (rare) To achieve a

    • vanquish

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To defeat, to overcome.
  • * Clarendon
    • They vanquished the rebels in all encounters.
  • * Atterbury
    • This bold assertion has been fully vanquished in a late reply to the Bishop of Meaux's treatise.