Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being conquered; that may be vanquished or subdued.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being conquered or subdued.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
conquered orsubdued .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective subject to being conquered or overcome
- adjective capable of being surmounted or excelled
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Examples
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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Instead we have waged the longest, most expensive and most questionable wars against 'conquerable' nations we've not yet really conquered.
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She talks about how modern medicine upended religion and ritual and set us on a new path toward pain not as mystery but as conquerable enemy.
Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too Haroon Moghul 2010
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She talks about how modern medicine upended religion and ritual and set us on a new path toward pain not as mystery but as conquerable enemy.
Haroon Moghul: It Hurts to Be Muslim, Too Haroon Moghul 2010
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She made final revisions to the list by twelve-thirty, and fell asleep with the calming reassurance of what she considered a conquerable undertaking.
Paper Lanterns Peter Kispert 2011
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So it's not inequality in and of itself, it's the belief that inequality is simply not conquerable.
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