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# vanquish

«vanquish» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to defeat someone completely in a fight or contest** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (vanquish, vanquishes, vanquished, vanquishing)

### meaning for a pupil

To vanquish is to defeat someone completely in a fight or contest. It is a stronger word than beat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means to defeat someone in argument. Elihu warns Job's friends not to claim that God, rather than man, will answer Job. Interpretation: Commentators read Elihu as saying that wisdom comes from God and that nobody should be proud of it. In the primary lessons: heroes in tales vanquish monsters, giants and villains; the defeated one is called vanquished

### examples

- Beware lest ye say: 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man!' (Writings JOB.32.13, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/#x1)
- The hero vanquished the dragon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/#x2)
- The vanquished giant fled into the hills. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/#x3)
- Good often vanquishes evil in the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Beware lest ye say: 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not man!'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.835/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vanquish» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/V/vanquish/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.