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overcome vs vanquish

vanquish vs overcome

overcome and vanquish both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
overcome No No Yes No
vanquish No No Yes No
As verbs, vanquish is a hypernym of overcome; that is, vanquish is a word with a broader meaning than overcome:
  • overcome: get on top of; deal with successfully
  • vanquish: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Other hypernyms of overcome include beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce.
As verbs, vanquish is a hypernym of overcome; that is, vanquish is a word with a broader meaning than overcome:
  • overcome: overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
  • vanquish: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Other hypernyms of overcome include beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce.
As verbs, vanquish is a hyponym of overcome; that is, vanquish is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than overcome:
  • overcome: win a victory over
  • vanquish: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
Other hyponyms of overcome include demolish, destroy, beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, wallop, down, overrun, lurch, skunk, expel, rout, rout out, upset, nose, conquer, come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive.
overcome (verb) vanquish (verb)
get on top of; deal with successfully come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
win a victory over
overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
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