Synonyms of conquering

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adjective

as in victorious

Related Words

• victorious
• winning
• triumphant
• rejoicing
• jubilant
• exultant
• glorying
• exulting
• crowing
• euphoric
• ecstatic
• proud
• crank
• prideful
• elated
• arrogant
• cocky
• boastful
• cock-a-hoop

Dissimilar Words

• defeated
• depressed
• disconsolate
• downcast
• dispirited
• dejected
• crestfallen

conquering

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verb

present participle of conquer

1

as in dominating

to bring under one's control by force of arms

before his final defeat, Napoléon had managed to conquer much of Europe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dominating
• subduing
• subjecting
• defeating
• overcoming
• subjugating
• vanquishing
• enslaving
• reducing
• subordinating
• pacifying
• overpowering
• crushing
• beating
• smashing
• annihilating
• whipping
• licking
• quelling
• suppressing
• routing
• clobbering
• trouncing
• prevailing (over)
• thrashing
• mowing (down)
• repressing
• triumphing (over)
• walloping
• drubbing
• squashing
• silencing
• quashing
• smothering
• squelching
• breaking
• skunking
• cracking down (on)
• clamping down (on)
• putting down
• snuffing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• liberating
• freeing
• springing
• discharging
• emancipating
• releasing
• enfranchising
• manumitting
• unchaining
• unfettering
• unbinding
• uncaging

2

as in defeating

to achieve a victory over

love conquers all, or so romance novels would have us believe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• defeating
• overcoming
• mastering
• taking
• beating
• getting
• stopping
• subduing
• dispatching
• surmounting
• succeeding
• licking
• upending
• besting
• trimming
• overmatching
• prevailing (over)
• winning (against)
• overbearing
• triumphing (over)
• getting the better of
• worsting
• getting around
• finishing
• doing down
• crushing
• burying
• sweeping
• slaughtering
• surpassing
• annihilating
• overwhelming
• skunking
• subjugating
• scoring
• vanquishing
• exceeding
• excelling
• whipping
• flattening
• knocking for a loop
• overthrowing
• upsetting
• flourishing
• trouncing
• bombing
• clobbering
• transcending
• routing
• capping
• breaking
• topping
• thrashing
• blowing out
• edging (out)
• creaming
• walloping
• overpowering
• skinning
• blowing away
• outdoing
• smoking
• outshining
• unseating
• eclipsing
• drubbing
• pipping
• waxing
• nosing out
• bettering
• outdistancing
• outstripping
• outfighting
• shellacking
• knocking over
• knocking off
• overtopping
• snowing under
• acing (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing (to)
• falling
• going down
• failing
• giving up
• collapsing
• folding
• going under
• flopping
• flunking
• washing out

3

as in winning

to achieve victory (as in a contest)

a coach who demands that his team conquer, whatever the cost

Synonyms & Similar Words

• winning
• prevailing
• triumphing
• succeeding
• overcoming
• sweeping
• contending
• kicking butt
• carrying the day
• vying
• squeaking
• romping
• squeezing
• breezing

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• failing
• collapsing
• struggling
• folding
• declining
• slipping
• waning
• flopping
• washing out
• floundering
• slumping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of conquering

Verb

Speaking of those chickens, Schreiber—whose fear of poultry started as a child, when his hippie parents moved the family to a commune in Canada—seems to be successfully conquering this particular anxiety. — Ingrid Abramovitch, Architectural Digest, 10 Sep. 2026

John Deacon, Queen The members of Queen were magpies who could throw just about anything, from opera to rockabilly, into their world-conquering arena rock. — Al Shipley, SPIN, 8 Sep. 2026

Until that point, Birmingham had looked dangerous, conquering the space vacated by City’s adventurous full-backs (in fact, Oceane Hurtre robbed a dithering Jade Rose on the edge of stoppage time for a consolation goal). — Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

There’s no better way to add a jolt of prestige to an aspiring Oscar vehicle than the sight of its stars, bedecked in all their finery, arriving on the Lido by water taxi in the manner of conquering heroes. — Nate Jones, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2026

Then again, Bentley still knows a thing or two about racing, most recently conquering the challenging and prestigious Bathurst 12 Hours race in 2020 with a GT3 version of the Continental GT3. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026

Dolly Parton Nearly Ruled With Rockstar Parton had come close to conquering the Official Album Downloads tally in the past, but never quite made it. — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026

After that, conquering parts of the universe would be a triviality. — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 27 Aug. 2026

In the eighteenth century, while Russia fixated on conquering Eurasia, Britain developed the steam engine; in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, while Europeans fought over Africa, Americans mastered the assembly line. — Evan Osnos, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026