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#718. Retaliation. -- N. retaliation, reprisal, retort; counter-
stroke, counter-blast, counterplot, counter-project; retribution, lex
talionis; reciprocation &c. (reciprocity) 12.
tit for tat, give and take, blow for blow, quid pro quo, a Roland for
an Oliver, measure for measure, diamond cut diamond, the biter bit, a game
at which two can play; reproof valiant, retort courteous.
recrimination &c. (accusation) 938; revenge &c. 919; compensation &c.
30; reaction &c. (recoil) 277.
V. retaliate, retort, turn upon; pay, pay off, pay back; pay in one's
own coin, pay in the same coin; cap; reciprocate &c. 148; turn the tables
upon, return the compliment; give a quid pro quo &c. n., give as much as
one takes, give as good as one gets; give and take, exchange fisticuffs; be
quits, be even with; pay off old scores.
serve one right, be hoist on one's own petard, throw a stone in one's
own garden, catch a Tartar.
Adj. retaliating &c. v.; retaliatory, retaliative; talionic.
Adv. in retaliation; en revanche.
Phr. mutato nomine de te fabula narratur [Horace]; par pari refero
[Terence]; tu quoque; you're another; suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo; a beau
jeu beau retour; litem . . . lite resolvit [Horace].

#719. Resistance. -- N. resistance, stand, front, oppugnation;
oppugnancy; opposition &c. 708; renitence, renitency; reluctation,
recalcitration; kicking &c. v.
repulse, rebuff.
insurrection &c. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out,
barring out; levee en masse, Jacquerie; riot &c. (disorder) 59.
V. resist; not submit &c. 725; repugn, reluct, reluctate, withstand;
stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof
against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand
the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold
firm.
breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent;
face, confront, grapple with; show a bold gfront &c. (courage) 861; present
a front; make a stand, take one's stand.
kick, kick against; recalcitrate, kick against the pricks; oppose &c.
708; fly in the face of; lift the hand against &c. (attack) 716; rise up in
arms &c. (war) 722; strike, turn out; draw up a round robin &c.
(remonstrate) 932; revolt &c. (disobey) 742; make a riot.
prendre le mors aux dents; take the bit between the teeth; sell one's
life dearly, die hard, keep at bay; repel, repulse.
Adj. resisting &c.v.; resistive, resistant; refractory &c.
(disobedient) 742; recalcitrant, renitent; up in arms.
repulsive, repellant.
proof against; unconquerable &c. (strong) 159; stubborn, unconquered;
indomitable &c. (persevering) 604a; unyielding &c. (obstinate) 606.
Int. hands off! keep off!

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#720. Contention. -- N. contention, strife; contest, contestation;
struggle; belligerency; opposition &c. 708.
controversy, polemics; debate &c. (discussion) 476; war of words,
logomachy, litigation; paper war; high words &c. (quarrel) 713; sparring
&c. v.
competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism|, concours,
match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field
day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy,
gymkhana; boat race, torpids.
wrestling, pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, spar, mill, set-to, round,
bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship,
gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports;
games of skill &c. 840.
shindy; fracas &c. (discord) 713; clash of arms; tussle, scuffle,
broil, fray; affray, affrayment|; velitation|; colluctation|, luctation;
brabble, brigue|, scramble, melee, scrimmage, stramash, bushfighting.
free fight, stand up fight, hand to hand, running fight.
conflict, skirmish; rencounter, encounter; rencontre, collision,
affair, brush, fight; battle, battle royal; combat, action, engagement,
joust, tournament; tilt, tilting [medeival times]; tournay, list; pitched
battle.
death struggle, struggle for life or death, life or death struggle,
Armageddon.
hard knocks, sharp contest, tug of war.
naval engagement, naumachia, sea fight.
duel, duello; single combat, monomachy, satisfaction, passage d'armes,
passage of arms, affair of honor; triangular duel; hostile meeting,
digladiation; deeds of arms, feats of arms; appeal to arms &c. (warfare)
722.
pugnacity; combativeness &c. adj.; bone of contention &c. 713.
V. contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar,
square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib|!, justle, tussle, tilt,
box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight &c. (war) 722; wrangle &c.
(quarrel) 713.
contend &c. with, grapple with, engage with, close with, buckle with,
bandy with, try conclusions with, have a brush &c. n. with, tilt with;
encounter, fall foul of, pitch into, clapperclaw, run a tilt at; oppose &c.
708; reluct.
join issue, come to blows, go to loggerheads, set to, come to the
scratch, exchange shots, measure swords, meet hand to hand; take up the
cudgels, take up the glove, take up the gauntlet; enter the lists; couch
one's lance; give satisfaction; appeal to arms &c. (warfare) 722.
lay about one; break the peace.
compete with, cope with, vie with, race with; outvie, emulate, rival;
run a race; contend &c. for, stipulate for, stickle for; insist upon, make
a point of.
Adj. contending &c. v.; together by the ears, at loggerheads at war at
issue.
competitive, rival; belligerent; contentious, combative, bellicose,
unpeaceful; warlike &c. 722; quarrelsome &c. 901; pugnacious; pugilistic,
gladiatorial; palestric, palestrical.
Phr. a verbis ad verbera; a word and a blow; "a very pretty quarrel as
it stands" [Sheridan]; commune periculum concordiam parit; lis litem
generat.


#721. Peace. -- N. peace; amity &c. (friendship) 888; harmony &c.
(concord) 714; tranquillity &c. (quiescence) 265; truce &c. (pacification)
723; pipe of peace, calumet of peace.
piping time of peace, quiet life; neutrality.
pax Romana; Pax Americana.
V. be at peace; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714.
make peace &c. 723.
Adj. pacific; peaceable, peaceful; calm, tranquil, untroubled,
halcyon; bloodless; neutral.
Phr. the storm blown over; the lion lies down with the lamb; "all
quiet on the Potomac"; paritur pax bello [Nepos]; "peace hath her victories
no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "they make a desert and they call it
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#722. Warfare. -- N. warfare; fighting &c.v.; hostilities; war, arms,
the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed.
appeal to arms, appeal to the sword; ordeal of battle; wager of
battle; ultima ratio regum, arbitrament of the sword.
battle array, campaign, crusade, expedition; mobilization; state of
siege; battlefield &c. (arena) 728; warpath.
art of war, tactics, strategy, castrametation; generalship;
soldiership; military evolutions, ballistics, gunnery; chivalry.
gunpowder, shot.
battle, tug of war &c. (contention) 720; service, campaigning, active
service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet,
clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of
drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password,
watchword; passage d-armes.
war to the death, war to the knife; guerre a mort, guerre a outrance;
open war, internecine war, civil war.
V. arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the
cudgels &c. 720; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the
sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the
tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war' [Julius Caesar];
cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's
banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away
the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own
hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle;
flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the
trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight;
combat; contend &c. 720; battle with, break a lance with.
serve; see service, be on service, be on active service; campaign;
wield the sword, shoulder a musket, smell powder, be under fire; spill
blood, imbrue the hands in blood; on the warpath.
carry on war, carry on hostilities; keep the field; fight the good
fight; fight it out, fight like devils, fight one's way, fight hand to
hand; sell one's life dearly.
Adj. contending, contentious &c. 720; armed, armed to the teeth, armed
cap-a-pie; sword in hand; in arms, under arms, up in arms; at war with;
bristling with arms; in battle array, in open arms, in the field;
embattled; battled.
unpacific, unpeaceful; belligerant, combative, armigerous, bellicose,
martial, warlike; military, militant; soldier-like, soldierly.
chivalrous; strategical, internecine.
Adv. flagrante bello, in the thick of the fray, in the cannon's mouth;
at the sword's point, at the point of the bayonet.
Int. vae victis! to arms! to your tents O Israel!
Phr. the battle rages; a la guerre comme a la guerre; bis peccare in
bello non licet; jus gladii; "my voice is still for war" [Addison]; "'tis
well that war is so terrible, otherwise we might grow fond of it" [Robert
E. Lee]; "my sentence is for open war" [Milton]; "pride, pomp, and
circumstance of glorious war" [Othello]; "the cannons have their bowels
full of wrath" [King John]; "the cannons . . .spit forth their iron
indignation" [King John]; "the fire-eyed maid of smoky war" [Henry IV];
silent leges inter arma [Cicero]; si vis pacem para bellum.

#723. Pacification. -- N. pacification, conciliation; reconciliation,
reconcilement; shaking of hands, accommodation, arrangement, adjustment;
terms, compromise; amnesty, deed of release.
peace offering; olive branch; calumet of peace, preliminaries of
peace.
truce, armistice; suspension of arms, suspension of hostilities;
breathing time; convention; modus vivendi; flag of truce, white flag,
parlementaire, cartel|!.
hollow truce, pax in bello; drawn battle.
V. pacify, tranquillize, compose; allay &c. (moderate) 174; reconcile,
propitiate, placate, conciliate, meet halfway, hold out the olive branch,
heal the breach, make peace, restore harmony, bring to terms.
settle matters, arrange matters, accommodate matters, accommodate
differences; set straight; make up a quarrel, tantas componere lites; come
to an understanding, come to terms; bridge over, hush up; make it, make
matters up; shake hands; mend one's fences [U.S.].
raise a siege; put up the sword, sheathe the sword; bury the hatchet,
lay down one's arms, turn swords into plowshares; smoke the calumet of
peace, close the temple of Janus; keep the peace &c. (concord) 714; be
pacified &c.; come round.
Adj. conciliatory; composing &c.v.; pacified &c.v.
Phr. requiescat in pace.

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#724. Mediation. -- N. mediation, mediatorship, mediatization;
intervention, interposition, interference, intermeddling, intercession;
arbitration; flag of truce &c. 723; good offices, peace offering; .
parley, negotiation; diplomatics, diplomacy; compromise &c. 774.
mediator, intercessor, peacemaker, makepeace, negotiator, go-between;
diplomatist &c. (consignee) 758; moderator; propitiator; umpire.
V. mediate, mediatize; intercede, interpose, interfere, intervene;
step in, negotiate; meet halfway; arbitrate; magnas componere lites.
Adj. mediatory.

#725. Submission. -- N. submission, yielding; nonresistance; obedience
&c. 743.
surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown.
obeisance, homage, kneeling, genuflexion, courtesy, curtsy, kowtow,
prostration.
V. succumb, submit, yeild, bend, resign, defer to.
lay down one's arms, deliver up one's arms; lower colors, haul down
colors, strike one's flag, strike colors.
surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms,
retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns &c. (humility) 879; give way,
give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgement by default; bend,
bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle
down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.
eat dirt, eat the leek, eat humble pie; bite the dust, lick the dust;
be at one's feet, fall at one's feet; craven; crouch before, throw oneself
at the feet of; swallow the leek, swallow the pill; kiss the rod; turn the
other cheek; avaler les couleuvres, gulp down.
obey &c. 743; kneel to, bow to, pay homage to, cringe to, truckle to;
bend the neck, bend the knee; kneel, fall on one's knees, bow submission,
courtesy, curtsy, kowtow.
pocket the affront; make the best of, make a virtue of necessity; grin
and abide, grin and bear it, shrug the shoulders, resign oneself; submit
with a good grace &c. (bear with) 826.
Adj. surrendering &c. v.; submissive, resigned, crouching;
downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresisting,
nonresisting; pliant &c. (soft) 324; undefended.
untenable, indefensible; humble &c. 879.
Phr. have it your own way; it can't be helped; amen &c. (assent) 488;
da locum melioribus; tempori parendum.


#726. Combatant. -- N. combatant; disputant, controversialist,
polemic, litigant, belligerent; competitor, rival, corrival; fighter,
assailant; champion, Paladin; mosstrooper, swashbuckler fire eater,
duelist, bully, bludgeon man, rough.
prize fighter, pugilist, boxer, bruiser, the fancy, gladiator,
athlete, wrestler; fighting-cock, game-cock; .
warrior, soldier, fighting man, Amazon, man at arms, armigerent;
campaigner, veteran; swordsman, sabreur, redcoat, military man, Rajput.
armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army,
standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry,
volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-
nationale, garde-royale; minuteman [Am. Hist.]; auxiliary forces, reserve
forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater;
guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops.
janissary; myrmidon; Mama, Mameluke; spahee, spahi, Cossack, Croat,
Pandoz; irregular, franctireur, tirailleur, bash-bazouk, guerilla,
condottiere.
mercenary; bushwhacker, free lance, companion; Hessian.
levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw
levies.
private, private soldier; Tommy Atkins, rank and file, peon, trooper,
sepoy, legionnaire, legionary, food for powder; officer &c. (commander)
745; subaltern, ensign, standard bearer; spearman, pikeman; halberdier,
lancer; musketeer, carabineer, rifleman, jager, sharpshooter, yager,
skirmisher; grenadier, fusileer; archer, bowmann.
horse and foot; horse soldier, foot soldier; cavalry, horse,
artillery, horse artillery, infantry, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan,mounted
rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier;
Foot Guards, Horse Guards; gunner, cannoneer, bombardier, artilleryman,
matross; sapper, sapper and miner; engineer; light infantrym,
rifles,chasseur, zouave; military train, coolie.
army, corps d'armee, host, division, battalia, column, wing,
detachment, garrison, flying column, brigade, regiment, corps, battalion,
sotnia, squadron, company, platoon, battery, subdivision, section, squad;
piquet, picket, guard, rank, file; legion, phalanx, cohort; cloud of
skirmishers.
war horse, charger, destrier.
marine, man-of-war's man &c. (sailor) 269; navy, wooden walls, naval
forces, fleet, flotilla, armada, squadrong.
man-of-war; armored cruiser, protected cruiser; destroyer; submarine;
torpedo-boat, torpedo-destroyer; torpedo-catcher, war castle, H.M.S.; line
of battle ship, ship of the line; ironclad, turret ship, ram, monitor,
floating battery; first-rate, frigate, sloop of war, corvette, gunboat,
bomb vessel; flagship, guard ship, cruiser; privateer;
tender; store ship, troop ship; transport, catamaran.

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#727. Arms. -- N. arm, arms; weapon, deadly weapon; armament,
armaments, armature; panoply, stand of arms; armor &c. (defense) 717;
armory &c. (store) 636; apparatus belli.
ammunition; powder, powder and shot; cartridge; ball cartridge,
cartouche, fireball; "villanous saltpeter" [Hen. IV]; dumdum bullet.
explosive; gunpowder, guncotton.
dynamite, melinite, cordite, lyddite; pyroxyline.
sword, saber, broadsword, cutlass, falchion, scimitar, cimeter, brand,
whinyard, bilbo, glaive, glave, rapier, skean, Toledo, Ferrara, tuck,
claymore, adaga, baselard, Lochaber ax, skean dhu, creese, kris, dagger,
dirk, banger, ponlard, stiletto, stylet, dudgeon, bayonet; sword-bayonet,
sword-stick; side arms, foil, blade, steel; ax, bill; pole-ax, battle-ax;
gisarme, halberd, partisan, tomahawk, bowie knife; ataghan, attaghan,
yataghan; yatacban; assagai, assegai; good sword, trusty sword, naked
sword; cold steel.
club, mace, truncheon, staff, bludgeon, cudgel, life preserver,
shillelah, sprig; hand staff, quarter staff; bat, cane, stick, knuckle
duster; billy, blackjack, sandbag, waddy.
gun, piece; firearms; artillery, ordnance; siege train, battering
train; park, battery; cannon, gun of position, heavy gun, field piece,
mortar, howitzer, carronade, culverin, basilisk; falconet, jingal, swivel,
pederero, bouche a feu; petard, torpedo; mitrailleur, mitrailleuse;
infernal machine; smooth bore, rifled cannon, Armstrong gun, Lancaster gun,
Paixhan gun, Whitworth gun, Parrott gun, Krupp gun, Gatling gun, Maxim gun,
machine gun; pompom; tenpounder.
small arms; musket, musketry, firelock, fowling piece, rifle, fusil,
caliver, carbine, blunderbuss, musketoon, Brown Bess, matchlock,
harquebuss, arguebus, haguebut; pistol, postolet; petronel; small bore;
breach-loader, muzzle-loader; revolver, repeater; Minis rifle, Enfield
rifle, Flobert rifle, Westley Richards rifle, Snider rifle, Martini-Henry
rifle, Lee-Metford rifle, Lee-Enfield rifle, Mauser rifle, magazine rifle;
needle gun, chassepot; wind gun, air gun; automatic gun, automatic pistol;
escopet, escopette, gunflint, gun-lock; hackbut, shooter, shooting iron *
[U.S.], six-shooter [U.S.], shotgun.
bow, crossbow, balister, catapult, sling; battering ram &c. (impulse)
276; gunnery; ballistics &c. (propulsion) 284.
missile, bolt, projectile, shot, ball; grape; grape shot, canister
shot, bar shot, cannon shot, langrel shot, langrage shot, round shot, chain
shot; balista, ballista, slung shot, trebucbet, trebucket; bullet, slug,
stone, brickbat, grenade, shell, bomb, carcass, rocket; congreve, congreve
rocket; shrapnel, mitraille; levin bolt, levin brand; thunderbolt.
pike, lance, spear, spontoon, javelin, dart, jereed, jerid, arrow,
reed, shaft, bolt, boomerang, harpoon, gaff; eelspear, oxgoad, weet-weet,
wommerah.
Phr. en flute; nervos belli pecuniam infinitam.

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#728. Arena. -- N. arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater;
walk, course; hustings; stare, boards &c. (playhouse) 599; amphitheater;
Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course,
corso, turf, cockpit, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring,
lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus
[U.S.].
theater of war, seat of war; battle-field, battle-ground; field of
battle, field of slaughter; Aceldama, camp; the enemy's camp; trusting
place &c. (place of meeting) 74.


Section V. RESULTS OF VOLUNTARY ACTION


#729. Completion. -- N. completion, accomplishment, achievement,
fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation,
culmination; finish, conclusion; close &c. (end) 67; terminus &c. (arrival)
292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result;
final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke;
last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone,
keystone; missing link &c. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done,
fait accompli.
elaboration; finality; completeness &c. 52.
V. [transitive] effect, effectuate; accomplish, achieve, compass,
consummate, hammer out; bring to maturity, bring to perfection; perfect,
complete; elaborate.
do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring
about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.
despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work
of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in
practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution;
make good; be as good as one's word.
do thoroughly, not do by halves,go the whole hog; drive home; be in at
the death &c. (persevere) 604a; carry through, play out, exhaust; fill the
bill [U.S.].
finish, bring to a close &c. (end) 67; wind up, stamp, clinch, seal,
set the seal on, put the seal; give the final touch &c.n. to; put the last,
put the finishing hand to, put the finishing touches on; crown, crown all;
cap.
[intransitive] ripen, culminate; come to a head, come to a crisis;
come to its end; die a natural death, die of old age; run its course, run
one's race; touch the goal, reach the goal, attain the goal; reach &c.
(arrive) 292; get in the harvest.
Adj. completing, final; concluding, conclusive; crowning &c. v.;
exhaustive.
done, completed &c. v.; done for, sped, wrought out; highly wrought
&c. (preparation) 673; thorough &c. 52; ripe &c. (ready) 673.
Adv. completely &c.(thoroughly) 52; to crown all, out of hand.
Phr. the race is run; actum est; finis coronat opus; consummatum est;
c'en est fait; it is all over; the game is played out, the bubble has
burst; aussilot dit aussilot fait; aut non tentaris aut perfice [Ovid).

#730. Noncompletion. -- N. noncompletion, nonfulfillment; shortcoming
&c. 304; incompleteness &c. 53; drawn battle, drawn game; work of Penelope.
nonperformance, inexecution; neglect &c. 460.
V. not complete &c. 729; leave unfinished &c. adj., leave undone;
neglect &c. 460; let alone, let slip; lose sight of.
fall short of &c. 304; do things by halves, scotch the snake not lull
it; hang fire; be slow to; collapse &c. 304.
Adj. not completed &c. v.; incomplete &c. 53; uncompleted, unfinished,
unaccomplished, unperformed, unexecuted; sketchy, addle.
in progress, in hand; going on, proceeding; on one's hands; on the
anvil.
Adv. re infecta.

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#731. Success. -- N. success, successfulness; speed; advance &c.
(progress) 282.
trump card; hit, stroke; lucky hit, fortunate hit, good hit, good
stroke; bold stroke, master stroke; ten strike [U.S.]; coup de maitre,
checkmate; half the battle, prize; profit &c. (acquisition) 775.
continued success; good fortune &c. (prosperity) 734; time well spent.
advantage over; upper hand, whip hand; ascendancy, mastery;
expugnation|, conquest, victory, subdual; subjugation &c. (subjection) 749.
triumph &c. (exultation) 884; proficiency &c. (skill) 698.
conqueror, victor; master of the situation, master of the position.
V. succeed; be successful &c. adj.; gain one's end, gain one's ends;
crown with success.
gain a point, attain a point, carry a point, secure a point, win a
point, win an object; get there *[U.S.]; manage to, contrive to; accomplish
&c. (effect, complete) 729; do wonders, work wonders; make a go of it.
come off well, come off successful, come off with flying colors; make
short work of; take by storm, carry by storm; bear away the bell; win one's
spurs, win the battle; win the day, carry the day, gain the day, gain the
prize, gain the palm; have the best of it, have it all one's own way, have
the game in one's owns hands, have the ball at one's feet, have one on the
hop; walk over the course; carry all before one, remain in possession of
the field; score a success.
speed; make progress &c. (advance) 282; win one's way, make one's way,
work one's way, find one's way; strive to some purpose; prosper &c. 734;
drive a roaring trade; make profit &c. (acquire) 775; reap the fruits,
gather the fruits, reap the benefit of, reap the harvest; strike oil *
[U.S.]; make one's fortune, get in the harvest, turn to good account; turn
to account &c. (use) 677.
triump, be triumphant; gain a victory, obtain a victory, gain an
advantage; chain victory to one's car.
surmount a difficulty, overcome a difficulty, get over a difficulty,
get over an obstacle &c. 706; se tirer d'affaire; make head against; stem
the torrent, stem the tide, stem the current; weather the storm, weather a
point; turn a corner, keep one's head above water, tide over; master; get
the better of, have the better of, gain the better of, gain the best of,
gain the upper hand, gain the ascendancy, gain the whip hand, gain the
start of; distance; surpass &c. (superiority) 33.
defeat, conquer, vanquish, discomfit; euchre; overcome, overthrow,
overpower, overmaster, overmatch, overset, override, overreach; outwit,
outdo, outflank, outmaneuver, outgeneral, outvote; take the wind out of
one's adversary's sails; beat, beat hollow; rout, lick, drub, floor, worst;
put down, put to flight, put to the rout, put hors de combat, put out of
court.
silence, quell, nonsuit, checkmate, upset, confound, nonplus,
stalemate, trump; baffle &c. (hinder) 706; circumvent, elude; trip up, trip
up the heels of; drive into a corner, drive to the wall; run hard, put
one's nose out of joint.
settle, do for; break the neck of, break the back of; capsize, sink,
shipwreck, drown, swamp; subdue; subjugate &c. (subject) 749; reduce; make
the enemy bite the dust; victimize, roll in the dust, trample under foot,
put an extinguisher upon.
answer, answer the purpose; avail, prevail, take effect, do, turn out
well, work well, take, tell, bear fruit; hit it, hit the mark, hit the
right nail on the head; nick it; turn up trumps, make a hit; find one's
account in.
Adj. succeeding &c. v.; successful; prosperous &c. 734; triumphant;
flushed with success, crowned with success; victorious; set up; in the
ascendant; unbeaten &c. (see beat &c. v.); well-spent; felicitous,
effective, in full swing.
Adv. successfully &c. adj.; well flying colors, in triumph,
swimmingly; a merveille, beyond all hope; to some purpose, to good purpose;
to one's heart's content.
Phr. veni vidi vici, the day being one;s own, one's star in the
ascendant; omne tulit punctum.
bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria; cede repugnanti cedendo victor
abibis [Ovid]; chacun est l'artisan de sa fortune; dies faustus; l'art de
vaincre est celui de mpriser la mort; omnia vincit amor; "peace hath her
victories no less renowned than war" [Milton]; "the race by vigor not by
vaunts is won" [Pope]; vincit qui patitur; vincit qui se vincit.

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