win, v. 1. finish first, come out first, come out ahead, take, sweep; triumph, conquer, vanquish, prevail over, succeed, carry the day, gain the prize; overwhelm, overcome, overpower, subdue; score a success, gain a victory, take by storm, walk away with, waltz off with, Inf. bring home the bacon, carry off the palm, Inf. win out, carry.
2. gain, get, reach, touch, make; score, earn, pull down, catch, take, capture; acquire, obtain, procure, secure; achieve, attain, Inf. nail down, net, bag, sack; reap, harvest, come into, come by, collect, glean; accomplish, realize, effect; pick up, reclaim, recover.
3. win over persuade, convert, convince, induce, influence, sway; predispose, incline, bring, carry, lead; bring around, draw over, gain, prevail upon; talk into, Inf. sell, Sl. hook, Sl. twist [s.o.'s] arm.
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4. victory, winning, triumph, success, conquest; mastery, subdual, vanquishment, besting.
wince, v. flinch, start, blench, quail, startle, shrink; recoil* cringe, blink, draw back, Inf. funk; grimace, writhe, squirm, shudder, shiver, quiver, quake; tremble, shy, fight shy of, falter, boggle, stickle.
wind1, n. 1. air, breeze, zephyr, stream of air, current of air, draft; puff, breath of air, wiffet, sough; inflow, indraft, inspiration, inrush; waft, gentle wind, light air, sea breeze, Naut. cat's-paw.
2. gust, blast, squall, gale, flurry, flaw, windflaw, blow; northeaster, nor'easter, northwester, nor'wester, southeaster, sou'easter, southwester, sou'wester; east wind, west wind, levanter, levanto, gregale, mistral, kite-wind, bise; trade wind, doldrums, prevailing wind; tempest, storm, equinoctial, hurricane, typhoon, williwaw; snowstorm, blizzard, snow squall; sirocco, Sp. leveche, dust storm, sandstorm, haboob; cyclone, tornado, Australian, willy-willy, twister, Sp. baguio, whirlwind, eddy.
3. flatulence, flatus, flatuosity, gas; crepitation, Sl., Vulgar, fart, Med. borborygmus, windiness.
4. empty talk, babble, claptrap, hot air, twaddle, Sl. bull, humbug; swagger, boasting, brag, fustian, rodomontade, braggadocio; nonsense, balderdash, falderal, stuff and nonsense, twiddle-twaddle; hogwash, Inf. rot, Sl. baloney, Inf. flapdoodle, Inf. hooey; blabber, Inf. gibble-gabble, prattle, gibberish.
5. hint, intimation, suggestion, insinuation, inkling; innuendo, information, intelligence, report, news, notice.
wind1, v. 1. bend, turn, curve, swerve, loop, crook, hook; meander, zigzag, change course, deviate, warp; tack, heel, yaw, slew, haul, jibe, cast, break, veer, swing; twist and turn, contort, snake, worm, convolute, flow around; wander, rove, Chiefly Scot. wimple, wend.