Dictionary Entry

conquer

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/kon-ker/Used In Literature ↓

To defeat or take control of a place, people, or problem, often by force or skill.

In a Sentence

“The army managed to conquer the fortified city after a week of intense fighting.”

Origin

Late Middle English, from Old French conquérir, from Latin con‑ ‘together’ + quaerere ‘to seek’.

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Poetry examples for “conquer”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Because the world was young,
It was not foes to conquer,
Nor sweethearts to be kind,

conquer at the last.

English names,
Christian conquerors took and flung the conquer’d

And turn right back and lie on the ground to weep.
Forward! go, conquer! work and live! ‘Withal
A word comes, half command, half prophecy,

And turn right back and lie on the ground to weep.
Forward! go, conquer! work and live!’ Withal
A word comes, half command, half prophecy,

Throughout your form, as though that move,
And draw, and conquer all men’s love,
This subjects you to love of one,

Yet he attained, by her support, to have her:
Let us all conquer by our mistress' favour.
In vain, why fly'st back? force conjoins us now:

What need'st thou war? I sue to thee for grace:
With arms to conquer armless men is base.
Yoke Venus' Doves, put myrtle on thy hair,

Say that she wants the will of man
To conquer fame, not check’d by cross,
Nor moved when others bless or ban;

That, maugre all God's promises could do,
The chosen People never conquer'd quite;
Who therefore lived with them,