Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Conquest; the act of overcoming or taking by assault.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare The act of taking by assault; conquest.

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  • noun The act of taking by assault; conquest.

Etymologies

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Latin expugnatio.

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