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Win   /wɪn/   Listen
Win

verb
(past & past part. won, obs. wan; pres. part. winning)
1.
Be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious.  "Our home team won" , "Win the game"
2.
Win something through one's efforts.  Synonyms: acquire, gain.  "Gain an understanding of international finance"
3.
Obtain advantages, such as points, etc..  Synonyms: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead.  "After defeating the Knicks, the Blazers pulled ahead of the Lakers in the battle for the number-one playoff berth in the Western Conference"
4.
Attain success or reach a desired goal.  Synonyms: bring home the bacon, come through, deliver the goods, succeed.  "We succeeded in getting tickets to the show" , "She struggled to overcome her handicap and won"
noun
1.
A victory (as in a race or other competition).
2.
Something won (especially money).  Synonyms: profits, winnings.



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"Win" Quotes from Famous Books



... further information, and this he could not get from Norbert. It would be also as well, he thought, to tell the sheriff to stay proceedings relative to the Widow Rouleau. By this means he might secure another interview with Mademoiselle de Laurebourg, and perhaps win ...
— The Champdoce Mystery • Emile Gaboriau
... as you ought to be you'd have jest seen us squirtin'," replied the foreman of the Ancients with quiet satire. "And when we squirt, we squirt to win." ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... about his art. His conception was intellectual, highly imaginative, mysterious, at times disordered and turbulent in its strength. He came the nearest to the sublime of any painter in history through the sole attribute of power. He had no tenderness nor any winning charm. He did not win, but rather commanded. Everything he saw or felt was studied for the strength that was in it. Religion, Old-Testament history, the antique, humanity, all turned in his hands into symbolic forms of power, put forth apparently in the white heat of passion, and at times in defiance of every ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Painting • John C. Van Dyke
... thing. You could never offend me. Can't you see, Gladys, that the very reason I would be better is you, and you alone. I want to please you, because I want to win you.' ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan
... to sail, and in the boat Mr. Talboys was to ask and win her band. But from the first Mr. Fountain had never a childlike confidence in the scheme, and his understanding kept rebelling more ...
— Love Me Little, Love Me Long • Charles Reade


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