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win v. 1 come (in or out) first, carry the day, conquer, overcome;
carry off (the palm), finish first (in), achieve first place
(in), triumph (in), be victorious (in), be the victor (in), gain
a victory (in), prevail (in), succeed (in), take first prize
(in), Colloq bring home the bacon: Which team is more likely to
win today? We seem to have won the battle but not the war. 2
gain, carry off or away, attain, acquire, get, obtain, secure,
procure, receive, collect, net, bag, earn, realize, pick up,
glean: Look at all those trophies Gillian has won playing golf!
3 win over. influence, sway, incline, persuade, charm, prevail
upon, convert, induce, bring round or around, convince: Don't
think that Gilbert can be won over without a strong argument.
--n. 4 victory, conquest, triumph, success: So far this season
we have recorded six wins and one loss for the Surrey Scouts.
wind° n. 1 breeze, zephyr, puff, gust, breath, draught, light air,
current (of air): A gentle wind wafted our little boat across
the bay. 2 puffery, bombast, rodomontade, bluster, boasting,
braggadocio, vain speech, blather, (idle or empty) talk,
fustian, nonsense, twaddle, humbug, babble, gibberish, Colloq
gab, hot air, claptrap, hogwash, rot, hooey, boloney, Slang Brit
(load of (old)) cobblers: I went there for advice and all I got
was a lot of wind. 3 gas, flatulence, windiness, flatus,
borborygmus (= 'stomach rumbling (as from gas)'), heartburn,
Taboo slang fart (= 'anal release of gas'): I have to take a
pill to relieve this wind. 4 before the wind. Nautical
downwind, off the wind: We were racing before the wind with
every scrap of sail flying. 5 break wind. Taboo slang fart:
It is considered rude to break wind. 6 get or have wind of.
hear of, learn of, come to know, pick up, be made or become
aware of, gather, understand, hear on the grapevine, Colloq hear
tell of: We got wind of the company's plans to close this
plant. 7 get or have the wind up. take fright, become
frightened or afraid or apprehensive: When I heard a window
being raised I got the wind up. 8 in the wind. around, about,
rumoured, in the air, detectable, discernible, discoverable,
imminent, impending, approaching, close (at hand), about to
happen or take place or occur, afoot, in the offing, near, on
the way, Colloq Brit on the cards, US in the cards: We knew
that a change was in the wind, but never expected the chairman
to resign. 9 off the wind. See 5, above. 10 on the or a wind.
Nautical upwind, windward, to the wind, into (the teeth or the