victoryn.
/ˈvɪkt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈvɪkt(ə)ri/ 1. The position or state of having overcome an enemy or adversary in combat, battle, or war; supremacy or superiority achieved as the result of armed conflict.
a. With the, as in the phrase to have (get, win) the victory. Also const. of (an enemy, etc.).
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun]
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c1330 Arth. & Merl. 3370 (Kölbing) He þonked þe king of glorie, Þat him hadde ȝouen þe victorie, To ouercomen his fomen.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 167 Þese men..beeþ i-woned to haue the victorie and þe maistrie in euerich fiȝt.
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 7663 Of troye was þerinne al þe story, Hou Gregeis hadden þe victory.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) ii. 5 When any man had þe victory of his enmy.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1011 To wete whyche of hem shuld haue the victory.
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 1790 Thus they contynu fyght for the victory.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) iv. 9 So þis yong knyȝt..fought with the enemeys, and wan þe victorie.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxvi. 190 I..for her sake shalbe invincible Of this great monster to have the victory.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. vii. C I behelde, and the same horne made battail agaynst the sayntes, yee and gat the victory off them [ād (2nd ‘and’) in text].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 6134 Our goddis the gouerne, & soche grace lene, Þat þou the victorie wyn, thi worship to saue.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. i. sig. A4 In all this turmoyle three long hovres and more, The victory to neither part inclinde.
1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. xii. 11 Whereupon there was a very sore battell; but Iudas side..got the victory . View more context for this quotation
1647 H. Hexham Copious Eng. & Netherduytch Dict. (at cited word) To..carrie away the victorie.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 29 July (1972) VII. 225 A letter from Sir W. Coventry tells me that we have the victory.
1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible I. ix. 580 For Lathyrus having gotten the Victory, pursued it to the utmost.
1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 374 This so encouraged the Grecians, that they fought strenuously, and obtained the Victory over the Persians.
1811 G. Bruce Poems & Songs 19 To him..Wha..can the victory bestow On those, who to his precepts bow.
b. Without article.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun]
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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) v. xxiii Þe cok crowiþ after bataile & victorie.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 3868 Nor in armys conquest nor victorie Ben not assured vp-on multitude.
1457 J. Hardyng Chron. in Eng. Hist. Rev. Oct. (1912) 748 Of his fose he had ay vyctory.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 224 Scipio..has off the templis tane The armys..In name off wictory offerryt thar.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 473 With few folk thai had wictory Off mychty kingis.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Ei By the which they crucifie the worlde & hath victory of it.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms lxxxviii. 43 Thou hast taken awaye the strength of his swerde, and geuest him not victory in the battayll.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 (1623) iv. i. 144 Why so: then am I sure of Victorie. Now therefore let vs hence. View more context for this quotation
1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 529 Surena cover'd with Bloud and victory, came to my Chamber.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xliii. 282 Victory is the fruit of moral as well as military virtue.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xvii. 681 For him Jove leads to victory.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV I. 144 In following up the flying squadrons of Grammont and Chabot, [he] suffered victory to escape from his hands.
1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxxi. 229 Victory still continued on the side of Athens.
1881 F. W. H. Myers Wordsworth 80 When in victory..Nelson passed away.
c. personified
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > personified
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1563 B. Googe Eglogs Epytaphes & Sonettes sig. K.iiii In fyne lo Victorye at hande..Bent for to spoyle our Foes of Fame.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 32 Fortune and victorie set on thy helme. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 762 At his right hand Victorie Sate Eagle-wing'd. View more context for this quotation
1783 G. Crabbe Village ii. 35 Victory seems to die now Thou art dead.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 186 That was before we knew the winged thing, Victory, might be lost, or might be won.
1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 819/2 He..has now fallen in the arms of victory.
d. Used interjectionally as an expression of triumph or encouragement. (Cf. victoria n.1 1.)
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society > armed hostility > victory > shout of triumph [interjection]
io paean1592
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vae victis1612
victoria1639
the mind > will > motivation > [interjection] > exclamations to incite or urge on
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [interjection] > expression of triumph
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or exclamation > [interjection] > of exultation or encouragement
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1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. i. 116 Lords to the field, saint George and victorie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. vi. 1 Saint George, and Victory; fight Souldiers, fight. View more context for this quotation
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxviii. 479 The day of a believers death, is better than the day of his birth. Never till then, do we put off our armour, sheath our sword, and cry victory, victory.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. Song 123 Victory, Victory to the prostrate nations.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 47 Victory! Victory! Russia's famish'd eagles Dare not to prey beneath the crescent's light.
2. An instance or occasion of overcoming an adversary in battle, etc.; a triumph gained by force of arms. Cadmean victory, Pyrrhic victory: see those words. moral victory: see moral victory n. at moral adj. Compounds 2.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > a victory
victorya1340
a fair day1480
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxiii. 1 A bedel, þat eftere þe victory cries þat all þe land is þe victors.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 22 These olde aprouede storyis Of holynesse, of regnys, of victoryis, Of loue, of hate [etc.].
a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 2500 Ofte he þankede þe king in glori Of is grace & is viktori.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 3 Lyke for Davyd aftyr his victory Reyjoyssed whas alle Jerusalem.
a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 28 The ix [labour of Hercules] is þe gret victorie of þe beste Achildes, þat blew oute fyre at his mowth.
1508 W. Dunbar Ballade Barnard Stewart in Poems (1998) I. 179 At parlament thow suld be hye renownit ,That did so mony victoryse opteyn.
1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel Hist. Cambria 11 Let vs..choose vnto vs a head, to leade, direct, and gouerne vs,..sith without a head, there is no victorie to be looked for.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 33 This Brytish King in warres a Conqueror, And wondrous happie in his Victories.
1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. ii. x. 52 Where, after they have been repulsed or routed, they have rallyed, and carried away many glorious victories.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. iii. 179 The victory at Villalar proved as decisive as it was compleat.
1815 Morning Chron. 22 June We stop the press to announce the most brilliant and complete Victory ever obtained by the Duke of Wellington.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 90 The victory was great; but, like many victories it was fatal to the conquerors.
3. Supremacy or superiority, triumph or ultimate success, in any contest, struggle, or enterprise.
a. With the, or in plural, etc.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > ultimate success or victory
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a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi. 6 I hope þe victory thoro his help.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 331 Se what Salamon seith in Sapience bokes, That hij þat ȝiueth ȝiftes þe victorie wynneth.
a1400 Leg. Rood (1871) 88 Mak þis in þine armes forþi, Þan sall þou haue þe victori.
14.. Tundale's Vis. 88 Whom [sc. martyrs] Cryst Jesu eternally in glory Ordeyned hath a palme of his victory.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) 1 John v. 4 This is the victory that ouer commeth the worlde, euen oure fayth.
1573–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. 136 From my chamber the daye after mye victorye.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxi. 202 Such is euermore the finall victorie of all truth.
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 35 The Cooks hath laid Small Iles of Mutton, which you may invade With stomack, knife and spoon... With these, the victory you cannot faile.
1684 J. Norris Poems & Disc. 6 This little Victory he won, Shew'd what he could have done.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 Observe if he disdains to yield the Prize; Of Loss impatient, proud of Victories . View more context for this quotation
1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 361 But I hope I have got the Victory over my self.
1779 E. Burke Corr. (1844) II. 273 We have obtained two victories,..victories, not over our adversaries, but over our own passions and prejudices.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 74 The victory of the cabal of evil counsellors was there~fore complete.
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 2) v. 189 The victory over the terror of death, in self-devotion produces the highest state of mind.
b. Without article.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [noun] > ultimate success or victory
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c1315 Shoreham vii. 407 Hyȝt moste neades for þe glorye, Elles hedde y-faylled fyctorye.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 167 Wyþ-oute pacience non ne heþ uictorie.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxii. 9 Victorie and worshipe shal [he] purchace, that ȝeueth ȝiftis.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour vii. (1868) 10 And that fast is to make you haue victori ayenst youre flesshe.
1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 88 All honour we this lord with..glory..That wan on tre trevmphe of he victory.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. i. 30 The teares haue got small victory by that, For it was bad enough before their spite. View more context for this quotation
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G3 Men haue entered into a desire of Learning..sometimes to inable them to victorie of wit and contradiction. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 570 That suffering for Truths sake Is fortitude to highest victorie . View more context for this quotation
1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 261 He has gained no victory but over his own conscience.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 207 ‘There is neither victory nor defeat in the case,’ returned the Prince, drily. ‘The girl loves me not’.
1835 T. Mitchell in tr. Aristophanes Acharnians 430 (note) The daughter of Antæus is placed at the goal, as the prize of victory.
4. (With capital initial.) The Roman goddess representing or typifying victory; a figure or statue of this.
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the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities
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1569 E. Spenser tr. J. du Bellay Sonets in T. Roest tr. J. van der Noot Theatre Worldlings sig. Ciiv On eche side portraide was a victorie. With golden wings.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xxi. 26 b Within it [the chariot] was Victory sitting with two wings.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 99 Indeed by this very same portrature..I have seen..the goddesse Victorie expressed.
1705 T. Hearne Ductor Historicus (ed. 2) I. iii. 480 The Sepulchral Monument of one Tatias..at Sipylus; whose Tomb was adorned with Wreaths of Plenty, held up by Victories.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlv. 419 Crowned with a winged figure of Victory.
1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Naples 60 Bright Altar of the bloodless sacrifice, Which armed Victory offers up unstained To Love, the flower-enchained!
1841 W. M. Thackeray Second Funeral Napoleon iii. 63 Statues of plaster representing..victories, and other female personages painted in oil so as to represent marble.
1864 Ld. Tennyson Boadicea 30 Suddenly giddily tottering,..down their statue of Victory fell.
1872 B. V. Head Sel. Greek Coins Brit. Mus. 6 Above is a flying Victory, crowning the bull with a wreath.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
victory-anthem n.
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1869 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (1875) 122 After we have joyfully sung the victory-anthem recorded in Romans viii.
victory ball n.
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1945 W. H. Auden Coll. Poetry 117 We were To go to a great banquet and a Victory Ball.
1952 M. Laski Village ii. 42 To bedeck the village hall on the night of the Victory Ball.
victory celebration n.
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1945 J. Reith Diary 4 May (1975) vii. 347 I am dreading the victory celebrations and have no sort of heart for them.
1978 M. Cadogan & P. Craig Women & Children First vi. 131 When the war ends [Susan]..is..caught up in the spurious gaiety of the victory celebrations.
victory dance n.
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1921 A. Noyes Sel. Verse iii. 5 (title) A victory dance.
1976 Billings (Montana) Sunday Gaz. 27 June 1- d/1 The Sioux and the Arapaho have come to share in this victory dance with us.
victory handkerchief n.
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1709 The Post-Boy 1–3 Dec. The Victory Handkerchief, which gives account of..five most Glorious Victories..over the French.
victory match n.
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1769 Public Advertiser 3 Oct. A Cricket Match was play'd at Swaffham (being the Victory Match).
victory night n.
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1952 M. Laski Village ii. 41 The coloured electric lights that Mr. Waters had dug out for Victory night.
1977 Time (Atlantic ed.) 26 Sept. 17/2 The victory-night hoopla of Norway's Laborites was, however, a bit premature.
victory parade n.
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1931 F. L. Allen Only Yesterday i. 10 Every other city has its victory parade.
1982 L. Warner & J. Sandilands Women beyond Wire xi. 179 The war in Europe became progressively less of an Axis victory parade.
b.
victory-flashing adj.
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1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Liberty xv, in Prometheus Unbound 219 Lift the victory-flashing sword.
victory-worthy adj.
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1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Victory worthy, palmarius.
C2.
victory bond n. a bond issued by the Canadian and British governments during or immediately after the war of 1914–18.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > stocks, shares, or bonds > [noun] > bond > types of bond
government securities1707
Sword-blade bond1707
long bond1720
government paper1774
indent1788
premium bond1820
active1835
preference bond1848
investment bond1853
mortgage bond1853
revenue bond1853
municipal bond1858
treasury-bond1858
sices1867
property bond1869
government1870
priority bond1884
municipal1888
income bonds1889
yearling1889
war baby1901
Liberty Bond1917
Liberty Loan1917
victory bond1917
corporate1922
performance bond1938
convertible1957
Eurobond1966
Euroconvertible1968
managed bond1972
muni1973
granny bond1976
bulldog bond1980
Euro1981
granny1981
strip1982
zero1982
1917 Canad. Year Bk. 1916–17 693 On November 12, 1917, preparations were completed for the issue of a fourth Canadian War Loan in the form of five, ten and twenty year ‘Victory Bonds’ in denominations as low as $50.
1919 Times 14 June 19/1 The provision for Victory Bonds being accepted at their face value as cash for payment of death duties.
1977 R. K. Johns & R. R. Greenfield Dymond's Capital Transfer Tax xvii. 346 Victory bonds were accepted only for tax chargeable on death.
victory garden n. a vegetable garden maintained to provide food in wartime (spec. in the war of 1939–45).
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > [noun] > kitchen- or herb-garden
wortyardOE
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calgarth14..
pot garden1511
herbary1625
potagera1684
plantiequoy1686
potagerie1693
olitory1706
yard1718
kailyard1725
vegetable garden1756
plantiecrue1806
cabbage patch1810
cole-garth1865
victory garden1942
1942 W. Lewis Let. 10 Sept. (1963) 336 Why doesn't she lie low..and work in her victory-garden?
1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance i. 13 She had started a victory garden and seemed the merrier for it.
victory point n. Bridge a point scored in a championship representing a number of international match points in accordance with an agreed scale.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > scores or points
penalty1904
point1910
point count1914
match point1921
part score1932
swing1945
victory point1962
1962 Listener 8 Nov. 786/3 In the second half Britain went further ahead and won the match 6–0 in victory points.
1972 Daily Tel. 21 June 14/5 Britain scored 42 victory points out of 60 during Monday's play in the World Bridge Olympiad.
victory roll n. a rotational manœuvre about a longitudinal axis performed by an aircraft as a sign of triumph (cf. roll n.2 7); also figurative.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > aerobatics > [noun] > stunt > specific
loop1900
looping1914
barrel roll1917
falling leaf1917
renversement1918
vrille1918
slow roll1923
slow-rolling1923
aileron roll1924
flick roll1928
wing-over1928
lazy eight1930
bunt1932
aileron turn1942
victory roll1942
rollover1945
twinkle roll1962
rollback1978
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 58 On returning to his aerodrome he began a victory roll, got into a spin and failed to recover.
1971 A. Price Alamut Ambush vi. 73 There was no point in doing a victory roll, however. It might even be premature if he failed to handle Havergal with compassion.
1981 T. Barling Bikini Red North xi. 241 The F15 Eagle..passed overhead, turning in a victory roll.
victory sign n. a signal made by holding up the hand with the palm outwards and the first two fingers spread apart to represent the letter V (for victory) to indicate triumph (cf. V-sign n. 2a); also = V-sign n. 1b.
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society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > hand gesture > [noun] > finger gesture > other finger gestures
fillip1530
devil horn1854
devil's horns1905
victory sign1942
bird1966
air quote1989
1942 M. Dickens One Pair of Feet vii. 132 Her bell rang, not once, but as if she were giving the Victory sign in Morse.
1959 M. Steen Woman in Back Seat ii. viii. 310 One gave the ‘victory’ sign. ‘We've beaten 'em.’
1978 L. Thomas Ormerod's Landing v. 100 They went quickly, only the idiotic boy turning around and giving the victory sign.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† victoryv.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To overcome, vanquish.
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society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > conquer or overcome
overcomeeOE
shendc893
awinc1000
overwinOE
overheaveOE
to lay downa1225
mate?c1225
discomfitc1230
win1297
dauntc1300
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scomfit1303
fenkc1320
to bear downc1330
confoundc1330
confusec1330
to do, put arrear1330
oversetc1330
vanquishc1330
conquerc1374
overthrowc1375
oppressc1380
outfighta1382
to put downa1382
discomfortc1384
threshc1384
vencuea1400
depressc1400
venque?1402
ding?a1425
cumrayc1425
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
to bring or put to (or unto) utterance1430
distrussc1430
supprisec1440
ascomfita1450
to do stress?c1450
victorya1470
to make (win) a conquest1477
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discomfish1488
fulyie1488
distress1489
overpress1489
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utter?1533
to give (a person) the overthrow1536
debel1542
convince1548
foil1548
out-war1548
profligate1548
proflige?c1550
expugnate1568
expugn1570
victor1576
dismay1596
damnify1598
triumph1605
convict1607
overman1609
thrash1609
beat1611
debellate1611
import1624
to cut to (or in) pieces1632
maitrise1636
worst1636
forcea1641
outfight1650
outgeneral1767
to cut up1803
smash1813
slosh1890
ream1918
hammer1948
a1470 J. Hardyng Chron. clxxxvii. ix Greate syckenesse so had hym victoried, And droue hym out from all his region.
1576 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte (new ed.) 45 b If he had beene victoryed, hee coulde not haue left to Alexander meane and power of happy procedinge.
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