To win; succeed.n. A victory; a success; an act of winning.To acquire by labor, effort, or struggle; secure; gain.SpecificallyTo gain by competition or conquest; take, as from an opponent or enemy; obtain as victor.To earn: as, to win one's bread.To obtain; derive; get: as, to win ore from a mine.To be successful or victorious in: as, to win a game or a battle.To accomplish by effort; achieve, effect, or execute; succeed in making or doing.To reach; attain to; arrive at, as a goal or destination; gain; get to.To cause to attain to or arrive at; hence, to bring; convey.To gain the affection, regard, esteem, compliance, favor, etc., of; move to sympathy, agreement, or consent; gain the good will of; gain over or attract, as to one's self, one's side, or one's cause; in general, to attract.To prevail on; induce.In mining, to sink down to (a bed of coal) by means of a shaft; prepare (a bed of coal) for working by doing the necessary preliminary dead-work: also applied to beds of ironstone and other ores.In the United States the word win, as used in mining, has frequently a more general meaning; it is thus defined in the glossary of the Pennsylvania Survey: “To mine, to develop, to prepare for mining.” See winning.To strive; vie; contend.To struggle; labor; work.To succeed; gain one's end; especially, to be superior in a contest or competition; gain the victory; prove successful: as, let those laugh who win.To reach; attain; make one's way; succeed in making one's way: with to.To get; succeed in getting: as, to win in (to get in); to win through; to win loose; to win up, down, or away; to win on (to get on, either literally or figuratively).To gain ground on; gain upon.n. Strife; contention.To dry or season by exposure to the wind or air: as, to win hay; to win peats.
