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verb (used without object)
1.
to finish first in a race, contest, or the like.
2.
to succeed by striving or effort: He applied for a scholarship and won.
3.
to gain the victory; overcome an adversary: The home team won.
verb (used with object)
4.
to succeed in reaching (a place, condition, etc.), especially by great effort: They won the shore through a violent storm.
5.
to get by effort, as through labor, competition, or conquest: He won his post after years of striving.
6.
to gain (a prize, fame, etc.).
7.
to be successful in (a game, battle, etc.).
8.
EXPANDto make (one's way), as by effort or ability.
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to attain or reach (a point, goal, etc.).
10.
to gain (favor, love, consent, etc.), as by qualities or influence.
11.
to gain the favor, regard, or adherence of.
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to gain the consent or support of; persuade (often followed by over): The speech won them over to our side.
13.
to persuade to marry; gain in marriage.
14.
COLLAPSEBritish Mining.
a.
to obtain (ore, coal, etc.).
b.
to prepare (a vein, bed, mine, etc.) for working, by means of shafts or the like.
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Wins
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
noun
Verb phrase15.
a victory, as in a game or horse race.
17.
win out, to win or succeed, especially over great odds; triumph: His finer nature finally won out.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English winnen (v.), Old English winnan to work, fight, bear; cognate with German gewinnen, Old Norse vinna, Gothic winnan
before 900; Middle English winnen (v.), Old English winnan to work, fight, bear; cognate with German gewinnen, Old Norse vinna, Gothic winnan
Related forms
win·na·ble, adjective
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verb (used with object), winned, win·ning. Scot. and North England.
to dry (hay, wood, etc.) by exposure to air and sun.
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Word Origin & History
win
fusion of O.E. winnan "struggle for, work at, strive, fight," and gewinnan "to gain or succeed by struggling, to win," both from P.Gmc. *wenwanan (cf. O.S. winnan, O.N. vinna, O.Fris. winna, Du. winnen "to gain, win," Dan. vinde "to win," O.H.G. winnan "to strive, struggle, fight," Ger. gewinnen "to
EXPANDgain, win," Goth. gawinnen "to suffer, toil"). Perhaps related to wish, or from PIE *van- "overcome, conquer." Sense of "to be victorious" is recorded from c.1300. The noun in O.E. meant "labor, strife, conflict;" modern sense of "a victory in a game or contest" is first attested 1862, from the verb. Breadwinner (see bread) preserves the sense of "toil" in O.E. winnan. Phrase you can't win them all (1954) first attested in Raymond Chandler.
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