Synonyms:
beat, beat_out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
The Spokesmen must vanquish the Martians or perish!"
He determined to vanquish the spectre that had reared itself before him, not perceiving that Remorse incarnate, in the shape of Evelina, had come back to haunt him until his dying day.