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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"  Antonym: lose.
2.
Win something through one's efforts.  Synonyms: acquire, gain.  "Gain an understanding of international finance"  Antonym: lose.
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"  Antonym: fall back.
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"  Antonym: fail.



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"Winning" Quotes from Famous Books



... measures, and won over all to his resolutions. This government in common was the spirit of the constitution; the other ministers saw in this the abasement of the executive power and an abdication of royalty, whilst M. de Narbonne saw in it the sole means of winning back public feeling to the king. Opinion had dethroned the royalty; it was to opinion that he looked to strengthen it, and therefore he made himself the minister of ...
— History of the Girondists, Volume I - Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution • Alphonse de Lamartine
... Thornton met those eyes so full of eagle boldness yet so tempered with kindness, and to his own expression came a responsive flash of that winning boyishness which these men had not seen on his ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... filled her with rage; now it seemed a slight which filled her with grief. So humiliated had she become, and so completely subdued by this man, that even this slight was not enough, but she still planned vague ways of winning his attention to her, and of gaining from him something more than a remark about the weather or about ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... But the ripple had hardly vanished from the water, when a white flag caught the breeze, over a castle in the wilderness, with frowning ramparts and a hundred cannon. There stood a French chevalier, commandant of the fortress, paying court to a copper-colored lady, the princess of the land, and winning her wild love by the arts which had been successful with Parisian dames. A war-party of French and Indians were issuing from the gate to lay waste some village of New England. Near the fortress there was a group of dancers. ...
— Old Ticonderoga, A Picture of The Past - (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... is that no matter what happens afterwards, the winning of the woman is enough to pay for life, death, pain, or anything else. One of the most remarkable phenomena of the illusion is the supreme indifference to consequences—at least to any consequences which would not signify moral shame or loss of honour, ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn


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