reduce implies a forcing to capitulate or surrender.
the city was reduced after a month-long siege
overcome suggests getting the better of with difficulty or after hard struggle.
overcame a host of bureaucratic roadblocks
overthrow stresses the bringing down or destruction of existing power.
violently overthrew the old regime
Example Sentences
They were vanquished in battle. vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe
Recent Examples on the WebWhen inflation became ingrained in the 1980s, the Fed, trying to vanquish it, ultimately raised interest rates to double-digit levels and provoked back-to-back recessions that pushed the jobless rate above 10 percent. Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 27 July 2022 But now, in the name of combating climate change, the administration of President Joe Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress are poised to vanquish Jarrell and other pipeline opponents. Ken Ward Jr., ProPublica, 8 Aug. 2022 Fittingly, the performance ended on a scene of Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) exerting her power to vanquish Vecna. Sara Netzley, EW.com, 23 July 2022 Just know that cats have a limited attention span and will get bored after a while, especially as the red dot is mysteriously hard to vanquish. Jessica Hartshorn, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022 Its unique design uses true HEPA filtration to vanquish virtually all airborne contaminants. Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 21 June 2022 Kansas will play the winner of Saturday night’s other semifinal between North Carolina and Duke on Monday night, allowing the Jayhawks to vanquish another memory — losing their most recent championship game, in the same Superdome a decade ago. Billy Witz, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022 One of her team’s goals was to identify and systematically test substances used in traditional Chinese medicine in an effort to vanquish chloroquine-resistant malaria. Maggie Villiger, The Conversation, 4 Mar. 2022 Hillary apologizes, and then two of them agree to join forces and vanquish Trump.Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English venquishen, borrowed from Anglo-French venquis-, extended stem of veintre, vaincre "to defeat, conquer," going back to Latin vincere — more at victor