conquer

/ˈkɒŋkər/ verb

Definition

LAND/PEOPLE [I, T] › to take control of a country or to defeat people by war: Peru was conquered by the Spanish in 1532.

PROBLEM [T] › to succeed in stopping or dealing with a bad feeling or a difficult problem: He has finally conquered his fear of spiders.

(Definition of conquer verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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