victory over/against• Real kept their 100 percent home record with a 3-1 victory over Espanol.• Leeds are through to the knock-out stage after a superb 4-1 victory over Anderlecht.• the Raiders' 35-17 victory over St. Louis• The 49ers want to validate their 7-1 first-half record with a victory over a worthy opponent.• He scored 24 tries, two of them in the epicChallengeCupfinalvictory overHull.• The remnants of the old left hopedvictory overapartheid would see the realisation of their ideals.• That is barely a third of the margin of Gore's victory overBush.• Too often the leadership's victories over the left have had an unsavoury, pyrrhic quality.
Originvictory
(1300-1400)Old Frenchvictorie, from Latinvictoria, from victus; → VICTOR