win

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To achieve victory or finish first in a competition.
2. v. To achieve success in an effort or venture: struggled to overcome the handicap and finally won.
3. v. To achieve victory or finish first in.
4. v. To receive as a prize or reward for performance.
5. v. To achieve or attain by effort: win concessions in negotiations.
6. v. To obtain or earn (a livelihood, for example). See Synonyms at earn¹.
7. v. To make (one's way) with effort.
8. v. To reach with difficulty: The ship won a safe port.
9. v. To take in battle; capture: won the heights after a fierce attack.
10. v. To succeed in gaining the favor or support of; prevail on: Her eloquence won over the audience.
11. v. To gain the affection or loyalty of.
12. v. To appeal successfully to (someone's sympathy, for example).
13. v. To persuade (another) to marry one: He wooed and won her.
14. v. To discover and open (a vein or deposit) in mining.
15. v. To extract from a mine or from mined ore.
16. n. A victory, especially in a competition.
17. n. First place in a competition.
18. n. An amount won or earned.
19. win out To succeed or prevail.
20. win through To overcome difficulties and attain a desired goal or end.
21. idiom. win the day To be successful.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To win; succeed.
2. n. A victory; a success; an act of winning.
3. To acquire by labor, effort, or struggle; secure; gain.
4. Specifically.
5. To gain by competition or conquest; take, as from an opponent or enemy; obtain as victor.
6. To earn: as, to win one's bread.
7. To obtain; derive; get: as, to win ore from a mine.
8. To be successful or victorious in: as, to win a game or a battle.
9. To accomplish by effort; achieve, effect, or execute; succeed in making or doing.
10. To reach; attain to; arrive at, as a goal or destination; gain; get to.
11. To cause to attain to or arrive at; hence, to bring; convey.
12. 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.
13. To prevail on; induce.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. To strive; vie; contend.
17. To struggle; labor; work.
18. 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.
19. To reach; attain; make one's way; succeed in making one's way: with to.
20. 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).
21. To gain ground on; gain upon.
22. n. Strife; contention.
23. To dry or season by exposure to the wind or air: as, to win hay; to win peats.

Wiktionary

1. n. Scotland Pleasure; joy; delight.
2. v. obsolete, transitive To conquer, defeat.
3. v. transitive To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc).
4. v. transitive To obtain (someone) by wooing.
5. v. intransitive To achieve victory.
6. v. transitive To obtain something that is wanted.
7. v. transitive To cause a victory for someone.
8. n. gain; profit; income
9. n. wealth; owndom; goods
10. n. an individual victory (opposite of a loss)
11. n. slang a feat, an (extraordinary) achievement (opposite of a fail)

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To gain by superiority in competition or contest; to obtain by victory over competitors or rivals
2. v. To allure to kindness; to bring to compliance; to gain or obtain, as by solicitation or courtship.
3. v. To gain over to one's side or party; to obtain the favor, friendship, or support of; to render friendly or approving.
4. v. Archaic To come to by toil or effort; to reach; to overtake.
5. v. (Mining) To extract, as ore or coal.
6. v. To gain the victory; to be successful; to triumph; to prevail.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something won (especially money)
2. v. obtain advantages, such as points, etc.
3. v. attain success or reach a desired goal
4. n. a victory (as in a race or other competition)
5. v. be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious
6. v. win something through one's efforts