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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

... advancement, approach before assemblies of Brahmanas, and read this narrative of the glorification of Sree by all the deities with Indra at their head, deities that are competent to grant every wish,—succeed in winning great prosperity. These then O chief of the Kurus, are the foremost indications of prosperity and adversity. Urged on by thee, I have told thee all. It behoves thee to bear thyself according to the instructions conveyed herein, ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 - Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 • Unknown

... station of Colonel Watson's wife, but some unavowed feeling prompted her to undertake, with enthusiasm, the duties of a mother to the colonel's daughter. Chiefly on Miss Watson's account it was at first that she extended her maternal cares to General Smith's daughter; but very soon so sweet and winning was the disposition of Miss Smith that Mrs. Schreiber apparently loved ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

... flesh—put a stop, indeed, to the Christmas rounds of the church singers, as promoting drunkenness and too light a handling of sacred things. But I gathered from Adam Bede, to whom I talked of these matters in his old age, that few clergymen could be less successful in winning the hearts of their parishioners than Mr. Ryde. They learned a great many notions about doctrine from him, so that almost every church-goer under fifty began to distinguish as well between the genuine ...

— Adam Bede • George Eliot

... year the German Government believed it was winning the war. Berlin believed it would decisively defeat our Allies before Fall. But even if the people of Germany again compel their Government to propose peace and the Kaiser announces that he is in favour of such drastic reforms as making his ...

— Germany, The Next Republic? • Carl W. Ackerman

... he looked like animated waste matter. His face seemed to hang on him. His mouth was loose and void of expression. His eyes were bleared and ever on the move. He spoke mostly in a toneless drawl, that sometimes turned into a shrill whine, but also at rare intervals could change into a soft, heart-winning purr. His clothing was poorer and coarser than that of any other person seen by Keith. Once or twice it seemed to the boy like a repulsive uniform, and he heard his parents speak with mingled disgust and relief of some house or institution that ...

— The Soul of a Child • Edwin Bjorkman

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