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# conquer

«conquer» in Mova's school dictionary: **to take control of them by fighting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (conquer, conquers, conquered, conquering); nouns: conqueror, conquest

### meaning for a pupil

1) To conquer a country or people means to take control of them by fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#m1)

2) To conquer a problem or a fear means to deal with it successfully and beat it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#m2)

3) To conquer a mountain means to climb to the top of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#m3)

4) To conquer a place can also mean to become very popular there: «The band conquered America». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons: the Romans conquered much of Britain, the Normans conquered England, the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and Incas — history shows both the winners and the people who lost their land. In personal stories and PSHE: «conquer your fears», like learning to swim. Phrases: «divide and conquer» (split enemies or a big problem into parts), «conquer a fear», «William the Conqueror», «the conquest of…».

### examples

- The Romans conquered most of Britain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x1)
- William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x2)
- Maya finally conquered her fear of the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x3)
- They conquered the mountain in three days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x4)
- The Spanish conquered the Aztec Empire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x5)
- Divide and conquer: break the big problem into small steps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x6)
- Her song conquered the charts all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x7)
- How did you manage to conquer it?" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/conquer/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: conquered (one r before -ed). Spelling trap: «qu» after «con», and the ending is «-er» (conquer), not «-or»; but the person is a «conqueror» (-or). Say KONG-ker.

### In the corpora

- [Toad thinks a long time and then says sadly: «You have conquered, my friends...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/72-willows-ch12-part3-no-speeches-and-no-songs/11/)
- [Istanbul was Constantinople, the Byzantine capital, which the Ottomans conquered in 1453.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/12-middle-east-and-central-asia/10/)
- [Ashoka, the grandson of Chandragupta Maurya, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/0/)
- [Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya's grandson, conquered the land of Kalinga in a terrible war in which very many people died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/8-ancient-india-ashoka-zero-and-our-numbers/7/)
- [In 221 BC the king of Qin conquered all the warring kingdoms and called himself the First Emperor.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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