- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
--1 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun vanquisher1
The fighter managed to vanquish his opponent