vanquish, overcome, surmount, liberate, annihilate, dethrone, colonize, unite, banish, subjugate, confront, exorcize, transcend, obliterate, outfox, overtake, bestride, outwit, exterminate, eradicate, reconquer, topple, enslave, traverse, persevere, destroy, ascend, civilise, exorcise, invade, slay, extirpate, daunt, remould, outrun, pulverise, infiltrate, overpower, wrest, outflank, uproot, succumb, outlast, dominate, civilize, submerse, subdue, unleash, bewitch, outsmart, accomplish, outbreed, climb, outshine, unlearn, rediscover, attain, pulverize, refind, tamed, invent, sally forth, americanise, succeed, crush, reclaim, compete, devour, unseat, repel, unify, emancipate, emulate, christianize, circumnavigate, beleaguer, ravage, dislodge, westernize, thwart, ravish, recreate, survive, outthink, christianise, europeanize, descend, outmanoeuvre, penetrate, hypnotise, sublimate, depopulate, overwhelm, recolonize, surpass, encircle, exploit, awaken, reach, befriend, enchained, prevail, compare, employ, speak, tell, victorious, bad, built, hold, hostile, profess, prosper, refuse, respond, alter, brighter, buy, combine, dare, depart, derive, deductive, multiobjective, heuristic, iterative, recursive, synthesis, gradualist, multilevel, algorithmic, matching, multigrid, search, simple, balancing, based, bismarckian, combinatorial, deterministic, enumerative, minimizing

blink, blink away, burke, carry, choke back, choke down, choke off, dampen, muffle, quell, silence, smother, squelch, stifle, wink

afield, battle of thermopylae, encroacher, invader, reconquer, tamburlaine, tamerlane, thermopylae, timur, timur lenk

check, contain, control, curb, defeat, hold in, moderate, take

capture, inhibit, seize, stamp down, suppress, take over