verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a conquering hero (= someone who has defeated someone else )
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Team members were greeted like conquering heroes on their return.
conquer/overcome your fear (= stop being afraid )
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She managed to conquer her fear of flying.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
fear
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We have to learn to communicate and that means conquering our fear of that process.
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The only way to conquer a fear is to face it, and to do so as frequently as possible.
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Janine conquered her fear before I did.
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Yet Laura failed to conquer fully her fear of water or enclosed places and was never able to use underground trains.
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Into Water I believe that to conquer fear of water, gentle persuasion is the best tack.
world
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I reckon most little boys believe that their favourite big brother can conquer the world and can do no wrong.
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And maybe that explains how this 18-year-old from Houston has arrived here in Atlanta ready to conquer the world .
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Reading them lifts my spirits so much I feel I could conquer the world .
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I was one and felt that I could conquer the world .
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No man with legs that would make his own horse laugh ever conquered the world .
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Having conquered the fashion world , she is now being courted by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks film company.
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You had a vision of yourself conquering new worlds , not spending time trying to collect old receivables.
■ VERB
divide
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That was interesting, he thought. Divide and conquer .
try
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She stared up into his blue eyes, trying to conquer the urge to scoot further up the bed.
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Later, it tried in vain to conquer the whole of the subcontinent.
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Claudia threw herself into the rehearsal for the show, trying to conquer her nerves by sheer will-power.
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Since June, Spencer-Devlin has been trying to conquer her demons.
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And would be most unwise to try to conquer !
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One of those elements is the story of an all-powerful race who tried to conquer and destroy Creation.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
divide and rule/conquer
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Britain did not divide and rule.
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He preferred to divide and rule.
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Here too the Party could fend off opposition by a policy of divide and rule.
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Power to appoint is power to divide and rule.
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That if you play the game of divide and rule long enough then you end up with Sister Souljah?
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The well-tried Roman policy of divide and rule had been the basis of Augustan diplomacy and continued during the conquest.
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They haven't shown the political will to sort out the problem - there has been an element of divide and rule.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Ari not only conquered his drinking problem, but he's found a new career.
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Disney's quest is to conquer the worlds of entertainment and leisure.
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Hernan Cortes led Spanish troops to conquer the Aztecs.
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Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, which we know today as France.
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Sailors travelled to the New World with the urge to conquer and explore.
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Sir Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing made history in 1953 by conquering Mount Everest.
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The Zulus conquered all the neighboring tribes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Consider this stirring quotation and its possible ecological implications: We must discover and conquer the country in which we live.
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Each country has its own geography where the spirit dwells and where physical force can never conquer even an inch of ground.
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He was using the treaty not so much to conquer as to acquire legitimately what he regarded as his own by right.
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Rich had conquered his own temper enough to take and not to spoil this rare second shot at school.
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So, if legions from the north had conquered the south, the spirit of the south was defeating the north.
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The Yasa says that we can enslave only those we conquer in battle.
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They want the women to be a sort of role model for them, out there conquering and achieving.