Conquer
Conquer verb - To achieve a victory over.
Usage example: love conquers all, or so romance novels would have us believe
Lose
Lose verb - To fail to win, gain, or obtain.
Usage example: if the team loses this game, they're out of the play-offs
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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From Bad to Worse: If you lose to Prinny Baal in Makai Kingdom, he'll go on to conquer the other netherworlds and make prinnies the dominant species and rulers of the universe.
Source: Characters / Nippon Ichi -
As time passed, he slowly began to lose control over his crew, all his plans to conquer Redwall failed thanks to the Brownrats, and many of the Sea Raiders were getting killed left and right.
Source: Literature / Redwall -
They have a tendency to slip into a berserker rage if they lose control of their tempers (it's all part of the Orc-God's plan to breed a super-warrior to conquer the world in his name).
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Lose and Conquer. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/conquer/lose
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