Entry Word: conquest

Function: noun

Meaning: the act or process of bringing someone or something under oneʼs control <the conquest of much of North and South America by the Spanish during the 16th century>

Synonyms dominating, domination, overpowering, subduing, subjecting, subjection, subjugating, subjugation, vanquishing

Related Words triumph, victory, winning; beating, defeat, drubbing, licking, trouncing; enslavement

Near Antonyms emancipation, freeing, liberation, manumission, release