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Winning   /wˈɪnɪŋ/   Listen
Winning

adjective
1.
Having won.  Synonym: victorious.  "The winning team"
2.
Very attractive; capturing interest.  Synonyms: fetching, taking.  "Something inexpressibly taking in his manner" , "A winning personality"
noun
1.
Succeeding with great difficulty.


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"



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"Winning" Quotes from Famous Books



... election—but if you can make up your mind to pass through this ordeal, well and good—but don't throw in the heart.... Yet in games on which is staked all that is worth playing for, 'hearts are trumps;' and he who holds the lowest card, stands a better chance of winning than he who has none, though in his hand may be all the aces of the others, diamonds included. But, lest I go too far beyond the analogy—as I might ignorantly do, being unskilled in the many games ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... else, it seems to me," amended Mrs. Latimer, with what carelessness she could assume. "Since the legislators have been arriving I have heard nothing discussed so much as Mr. Burroughs' chances of winning the election." ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman
... a peculiar charming and endearing softness in the manner of Miss Evelyn most winning and most exquisitely attractive. It was evidenced even in her mode of handling my prick; without grasping it, her hand appeared to pass over it hardly touching it, but in so exciting a manner that ...
— The Romance of Lust - A classic Victorian erotic novel • Anonymous
... I was winning, you know. I wish you could have got back for the finish. . . . Melisande, let me come ...
— Second Plays • A. A. Milne
... in favour of a separate southern confederacy. But South Carolina and Georgia were won over by the concessions in the Constitution to slavery, and especially a provision that the importation of slaves from Africa should not be prohibited until 1808. By winning South Carolina and Georgia the formation of a ...
— Civil Government in the United States Considered with - Some Reference to Its Origins • John Fiske


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