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单词 win
释义 win
I. \ˈwin\ verb
(won \ˈwən\ ; won ; winning ; wins)
Etymology: Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan to struggle, fight, toil; akin to Old High German winnan to struggle, fight, Old Norse vinna to work, avail, conquer, win, Gothic winnan to suffer, Latin vener-, venus love, sexual desire, venerari to venerate, Sanskrit vanati, vanoti he desires, loves, Hittite u̯en-, u̯ent- to copulate; basic meaning: to strive
intransitive verb
1. : to gain the victory in a contest : overcome an opponent : prevail, succeed
 < struck for higher wages and wonAmerican Guide Series: New York >
— often used with out as an intensive
 < in most mature adults these counterforces of course win out — Fredric Wertham >
2.
 a. : to succeed especially by effort in arriving at a place or a state : succeed in getting : get
  < beasts that had won to the high ground — J.R.Fethney >
  < making a great effort … he might win back to cool sanity — Hearst's >
  < the production won through finally owing to the sincerity of the two leading actors — T.C.Worsley >
 b. chiefly Scotland : to work up the ability : manage, contrive
3.
 a. archaic : to obtain an advantage : be in a superior position : be master or conqueror — used with upon, on, or of
  < have seen … the firm soil win of the watery main — Shakespeare >
 b. : to gain favor or influence — used with upon or on
  < wins upon me hourly — S.T.Coleridge >
transitive verb
1. : to get possession of by or as if by effort : gain, obtain, secure
 < made as many as 300 tenement-house calls a week and won an intimate knowledge of the poor man — Jerome Ellison >
 < won master's degrees in education and philosophy — Newsweek >
 < winning his way up — Charles Dickens >
 < regiments which won fame — H.L.Merillat >
 < won the support of influential friends — C.G.Woodson >
2.
 a. : to conquer in or as if in battle and take into possession
  < the individual foot soldier who alone is able to win and hold ground — D.W.Mitchell >
  < the refinery goes up on land won from the desert and the sea — Geoffrey Godsell >
 b. obsolete : to defeat (a person) in a fight : beat
 c. : to be the victor in
  < just as we won the war, so we can win the peace — Helen Douglas >
  < sought means to win the election — W.C.Ford >
3. : to obtain in return for work : earn
 < the several ways in which men have won their livelihood — W.G.V.Balchin & Norman Pye >
4.
 a. : to gain in or as if in competition
  < wins a prize >
  < won a senate seat — Carol L. Thompson >
  < won several battle stars … and a commendation ribbon — Current Biography >
  < won his point easily >
 b. obsolete : to gain (as time or space) so as to have an advantage
  < your way is shorter … you'll win two days upon me — Shakespeare >
 c. : to take (a trick) in a card game
5.
 a. : to influence so as to gain the favor of : make friendly or favorable to oneself or to one's cause
  < a mellow charm that wins the listener in unassuming ways — Harold Rogers >
  < won the hearts of his military staff — F.L.Paxson >
  < makes the neutral reader wonder whether it is aimed to win him for the communist or the fascist state — C.D.Lewis >
  < win back to active church membership many who had lost contact — E.C.Helmreich >
  — often used with over
  < resort to argument in order to win him over to our way of thinking — A.J.Ayer >
 specifically : to induce (another) to accept oneself in marriage
  < his deformity prevents him from winning the woman he loves — F.E.Coenen >
 b. archaic : persuade, entice
  < the man whom music wins to stay nigh — Alexander Pope >
6.
 a. chiefly dialect : harvest, gather
 b.
  (1) : to obtain (as ore, coal, clay) from a mine or pit
  (2) : to prepare (as a vein or bed) for regular mining especially by making shafts, gangways, and levels
  (3) : to recover (as metal) from ore
7. : to reach especially by effort
 < were worsted in the field, but many lived to win the great cave — H.R.Haggard >
Synonyms: see get
II. noun
(-s)
1. : an act or instance of winning especially in a game or contest : victory
 < had all their wins in cycling and swimming — News from New Zealand >
specifically : first place at the finish of a horse race — compare place, show
2. : something that is won (as in a game or contest) : gain, profit, take, winning
III. intransitive verb
(winned ; winned ; winning ; wins)
Etymology: Middle English winen; akin to Old English wunian to reside, live — more at wont
dialect Britain : reside, live
IV. transitive verb
Etymology: probably from win (I)
dialect Britain : to dry (as hay) by exposure to the air or heat
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