Win: Definition and part of speech

Win

  1. v. i. To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.
  2. a. To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals; as, to win the prize in a gate; to win money; to win a battle, or to win a country.
  3. a. To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.
  4. a. To gain over to one’s side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving; as, to win an enemy; to win a jury.
  5. a. To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
  6. a. To extract, as ore or coal.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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