transitive. To get the better of, defeat, overpower, prevail over (an enemy, person or thing opposing one, etc.). Also in extended use.

To discomfit (in battle or dispute). Obsolete.

To overcome, conquer; to win, gain, obtain.

transitive. To overcome; to conquer, vanquish.

transitive. To pass over, neglect, omit.

transitive †To put down, overthrow (obsolete). Also Nautical of wind or sea: To make (a vessel) lie on her side.

transitive. To overcome, defeat, subdue. Also figurative.

transitive. To defeat (an opponent or enemy) in battle; to beat, rout; to vanquish, overthrow. Also in extended use. Now rare.

transitive. To conquer, subdue, overcome, defeat, vanquish, ‘beat’. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome, subdue, vanquish.

transitive. To overwhelm, overthrow, rout, destroy. Obsolete.

transitive. To defeat, vanquish, discomfit.

transitive. To vanquish; conquer. Also absol.

transitive. To push (a person or thing) to the ground; (in extended use) to overthrow; to defeat. Also figurative. Cf. downbear, v.

transitive. To defeat utterly, discomfit, bring to ruin, destroy, overthrow, rout, bring to nought (an adversary). Obsolete or archaic.

transitive. To discomfit, to rout, to bring to ruin; = confound, v. 1. Only in passive. Obsolete.

Of action: to do, put arrear: to rout. to run arrear: to fall into confusion or disorder.

transitive. To overpower, overwhelm, or overthrow by force, violence, etc. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome or defeat (an opponent or enemy) in conflict or battle; to reduce to subjection or submission by superior force.

To overcome (an adversary), gain the victory over, vanquish, subdue.

transitive. To cast down (a person or group of people) from a position of influence, prosperity, etc. Also: to defeat, conquer, overcome; to ruin…

transitive. To overcome, put down, or subdue; to suppress; to check or put an end to; (spec.) to overwhelm (a person) in a fight or battle. Obsolete.

transitive. To take by assault; to subdue, conquer, overcome. Obsolete (in later use archaic and poetic).

transitive. To defeat or subdue (a person, army, etc.). Now rare or merged in sense 2b.

transitive. To defeat in battle; to frustrate, thwart, foil; = discomfit, v. 1. Obsolete.

transitive. To inflict a heavy defeat on (an army, nation, enemy, etc.) in a conflict or battle; to defeat (an opponent) easily or decisively in…

transitive. To vanquish, subdue.

transitive. To put down by force, or crush in a contest or struggle; to overcome, subjugate, vanquish. Obsolete.

transitive. To vanquish, subdue.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To defeat or overcome (a person, enemy, etc.) by force; to vanquish, rout. Obsolete.

= cumber, v. 1, to overwhelm, rout.

to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worse: to defeat or discomfit in a contest or conflict. Obsolete.

to bringor put to (or unto) utterance, to overcome completely, vanquish thoroughly; to bring to ruin or subjection, put to death. Obsolete.

transitive. To strip or plunder; hence, to defeat, rout. Also figurative.

transitive. To overcome (a person) by force; to overpower, subdue. Also: to suppress, put down, put an end to (something). Obsolete.

To discomfit, rout.

to do stress: to cause harm; (with to or indirect object) to inflict harm, injury, or hardship on (a person, place, etc.). Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome, vanquish.

to make (win) a conquest. Also to make a conquest of: to reduce to a conquered position, to conquer.

transitive. To vanquish, overcome.

To gain in war, conquer; to gain (a battle); to vanquish, beat.

transitive. To overcome or vanquish in a battle or war; to gain victory over (an army, enemy, etc.).

transitive. To overthrow, conquer.

transitive. To gain in war, conquer; to win (a battle); to vanquish.

transitive. = discomfit, v. 1.

transitive. To trample on; to injure, destroy; to defeat, overcome. Cf. foil, v.1

To crush in battle, overwhelm, coerce. Obsolete.

transitive. To press (a person, etc.) with excessive physical force, so as to overcome; to crush. Obsolete.

transitive. To vanquish, to overthrow.

transitive. To vanquish, conquer, or overcome.

to give (a person) the overthrow: to defeat or overthrow. to have the overthrow: to be defeated. Obsolete.

transitive. To put down in fight, subdue, vanquish; to expel by force of arms. Occasionally intransitive.

To overcome, conquer, vanquish; figurative to overpower. Also absol. Obsolete.

To overthrow, defeat (an antagonist); to beat off, repulse, discomfit (an assailant or an attack). †In Wrestling: To throw, to inflict a ‘foil’…

(also figurative)

transitive. To overcome, vanquish (an enemy) in battle; to chase away, disperse. Also figurative, esp. in religious contexts. Obsolete.

transitive. = profligate, v. 1b.

transitive. = expugn, v.

To overcome or expel by force of arms; to vanquish, overpower.

transitive. To overcome, vanquish. Chiefly in past participle and participial adjective ˈvictored.

To defeat or rout by sudden onslaught. Obsolete.

transitive. To cause injury, loss, or inconvenience to; to injure, damage, hurt; to inflict injury… To inflict injury upon in war. Obsolete.

To triumph over; to conquer. Obsolete.

To overcome, vanquish, conquer; = convince, v. 1. Obsolete. (Cf. convict, adj. 5.)

transitive. To overcome, overpower. Chiefly in passive. Now rare.

transitive. To inflict a heavy defeat on (an army, nation, enemy, etc.) in a conflict or battle. colloquial in later use.

transitive. To overcome, to conquer in battle, or (in modern use) in any other contest, at doing anything; to show oneself superior to, to surpass…

= debel, v.

transitive. To gain victory over; to conquer, overcome. Obsolete. rare.

to cut to (or in) pieces: (figurative) to rout in battle with great slaughter.

transitive. To make (oneself) master of, to conquer.

Cf. best, v.1 transitive. To get the better of (an adversary) in a fight or battle; to defeat, overcome.

To overpower by force. To compel to give way or yield; to overpower (troops, a guard). Obsolete.

transitive. To fight better than; to beat in a fight.

transitive. Military. To outdo or defeat in generalship; to get the better of by superior military skill; to outmanoeuvre.

To overcome with great slaughter, ‘cut to pieces’: see 7c.

To defeat utterly; to crush completely; to overcome, overwhelm, or destroy.

colloquial. To hit, to strike; to crush, to defeat. Also figurative. Cf. slash, v.1 2b.

U.S. slang. transitive. To vanquish, to beat. Also: to victimize, to punish severely.

figurative. To inflict heavy defeat(s) on, in war, games, etc.; to strike forcefully; to beat up. colloquial.