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▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
▸ verb: (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To achieve victory.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.
▸ verb: (transitive) To obtain (something desired).
▸ verb: (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.
▸ verb: (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
▸ verb: (transitive, informal) To defeat or surpass someone or something.
▸ noun: An individual victory.
▸ noun: (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
▸ noun: (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.
▸ noun: (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
▸ verb: (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.
▸ noun: (colloquial) A Winchester firearm.
▸ noun: (computing) Windows, an operating system family developed by Microsoft.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the female given name Winifred.
▸ noun: A diminutive of the male given name Winston.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: Alternative form of wynn [A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.]
▸ noun: (computing, by extension) Clipping of Windows key. [(computing) A key on a computer keyboard bearing the Microsoft Windows logo, used to open the Start menu and as a modifier key for various other functions.]
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gain ground,
get ahead,
gain,
make headway,
winnings,
advance,
profits,
clinch,
defeat,
beat,
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